KDE Clock fixing inability to add new alarms

Summary of the issue

If your in a situation where you are using KDE Clock and are not able to add Alarms.

The No Alarms Adding issue described in detail.

You attempt to add an Alarm to the Clock program under the Alarms section. You fill in the details and click Done and no Alarms are listed. You may see a brief pop up towards the bottom of the window saying Alarm will ring in x minutes, but will notice there are now no Alarms listed. When this happens the Alarm will not work.

A Solution

1. The fix is to close the Clock window.

2. Open System Monitor or similar system process viewer on Linux…

3. Find and Click on the Processes Tab

4. Type in kclockd in the search process search box, you may need to click a magnifying glass icon to show the text input field.

5. Select the kclockd process by left-clicking it.

6. Click the End Process button at the bottom left of the System Monitor window.

7. Re-Open the KDE Clock program

8. Attempt to add a new alarm.

9. Alarm should add and show in the list of Alarms (it may show duplicate it does for me sometimes too).

Conclusion

Killing the stuck clock kclockd process was what was needed to resolve this for me every time this has happened. Other attempts like clearing user files for Clock or even uninstalling and re-installing clock did nothing to resolve the issue, however those may be worth trying next if the above does not work for you.