Review of Resolute Raccoon Kubuntu 26.04 LTS

[acheron]

People have reported that installing the package libqt6wlshellintegration6 fixes the broken panel issues. If that is the case, we will be looking at why Plasma builds did not automatically generate a depend on that.

[acheron]

Sound issues with snap browsers may be? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/2142428

[cookiemuncher]

Plasma updated to 6.6.2

[skyfishgoo]

sounds like it's going to be a solid LTS release with a well stabilized plasma 6

good work to the kubuntu team

[cookiemuncher]

Sound issues with snap browsers may be? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/2142428

Caused by Firefox & Youtube. VLC plays fine.

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber​

...does restore sound.

[exploder]

I have the sound bug too...l. Everything else works surprisingly well. I was interested in the rust based core utilities and the Wayland only session in Plasma. Both seem fine so far. I upgraded from 25.10 to 26.04 because the installer was broken at the time I grabbed a daily build. Not only was the upgrade successful, my NVIDIA drivers did not break in the process! This is really looking amazing and it's not even beta yet.

[cookiemuncher]

My sound issue is now fixed after the update this morning.
EDIT:
No, it's not.

[tenplus1]

Out of curiosity I ran the .deb version of Firefox for a few hours and the sound issue never appeared, seems to only affect the snap release.

[die.boer]

Out of curiosity I ran the .deb version of Firefox for a few hours and the sound issue never appeared, seems to only affect the snap release.

iv'e said it before , it seems snaps & browsers don't mix well ,always seems like there's one thing or another

[acheron]

Sound issues with snap browsers may be? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/2142428

systmed with a fix for this should be installable as an update soon.

[oshunluvr]

Latest update broke my install. It boots to login but them goes black. If I shift to terminal mode before attempting graphical log in, I can log in there. A fairly large amount of errors in syslog:

 2026-03-12T14:03:31.957018-04:00 kubuntu2604 ksplashqml[2325]: qt.qpa.services: Failed to register with host portal QDBusError("org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed", "Could not register app ID: App info not found for ''")

Somewhere like 40 or so, each for a different application.

The sddm log is zero bytes.

The exact same install in VM works no problem and has a couple errors in syslog, but not many, and has a normal sddm.log.

Not really sure if it's worth trouble shooting or just wait it out. On 20 Feb. I copied the installation root subvolume from my VM onto bare metal and that original version works fine and still does. It does not have the above errors in syslog.