Hi, I have Fedora 42 KDE installed on my laptop, and sometimes after waking from sleep, KDE does not seem to start. The terminal can still be accessed with Ctrl-Alt-F3, but the login screen never appears.
We really need a lot more information before any suggestions may be made.
Please run inxi -Fzxx in a terminal then copy and paste the output here. (you may need to install inxi) Use the </> button on the toolbar after pasting the text and highlighting it so it retains the on-screen formatting and remains more readable.
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Here is the output of inxi -Fzxx
System:
Kernel: 6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 15.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21K90038US v: ThinkPad P16s Gen 2
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 21K90038US v: SDK0T76530 WIN
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_21K9_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad
P16s Gen 2 UEFI: LENOVO v: R2FET65W (1.45 ) date: 07/31/2025
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.8 Wh (58.5%) condition: 86.9/86 Wh (101%) volts: 15.55
min: 15.48 model: Sunwoda 5B11M90039 serial: <filter> charging:
status: discharging control: start: 0% end: 100% cycles: 64
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1100 min/max: 419/3301 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1100
2: 1100 3: 1100 4: 1100 5: 1100 6: 1100 7: 1100 8: 1100 9: 1100 10: 1100
11: 1100 12: 1100 13: 1100 14: 1100 15: 1100 16: 1100 bogomips: 105409
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1 vendor: Lenovo
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, HDMI-A-1,
Writeback-1 bus-ID: 64:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15bf temp: 30.0 C
Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 30c9:00ad
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Lenovo 0x4146 res: 3840x2400 hz: 60 dpi: 284
diag: 406mm (16")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.1.9 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (radeonsi phoenix
LLVM 20.1.8 DRM 3.64 6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:15bf
display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:15bf device: 1 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
[Rembrandt/Strix] vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 64:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_pci_ps v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 64:00.5
chip-ID: 1022:15e2
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 64:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
API: ALSA v: k6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63
port: 6000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp1s0f0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm QCNFA765 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo
driver: ath11k_pci v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 17cb:1103
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tailscale0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: USI driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3.1:4 chip-ID: 10ab:9309
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
lmp-v: 12
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 12.79 GiB (1.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS001TEJ9X162N
size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 34.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 299.48 GiB used: 12.37 GiB (4.1%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 369 MiB (37.9%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 59.7 MiB (23.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 299.48 GiB used: 12.37 GiB (4.1%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 60 GiB available: 58.49 GiB used: 4.19 GiB (7.2%)
Processes: 472 Power: uptime: 16h 22m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 257
target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 12
Compilers: gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: yakuake
inxi: 3.3.39
Seems that i can start KDE if this bug happens by running dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland from the terminal by doing Ctrl-Alt-F3
Looking at journalctl, I can see these errors appear consistently.
Oct 22 11:31:47 fedora kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
Oct 22 11:31:46 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
Oct 22 11:31:45 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1' failed.
Oct 22 11:31:45 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
Oct 22 11:31:45 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
Oct 22 11:31:45 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
Oct 22 11:31:44 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'org.bluez' failed.
Oct 22 11:31:44 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'org.bluez' failed.
Oct 22 11:31:44 fedora dbus-broker-launch[1430]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
Not sure if it would help, but I see you are on AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U, so decided to share some obvservations.
I’m on 7840HS, and when i bought it 2 years ago precisely for migration to linux from windows, it had severe issues with sleep on Fedora (or rather linux in general), and even switching power plans in KDE did not work. A year later it started sleeping, but it could turn on in a backpack on its own, drain battery and overheat.
I got used to a habit of just shutting it down when i leave home/office, it starts in seconds anyway.
Then, several months ago, don’t remember when exactly, I have noticed that everything in fedora/KDE got so polished that all seems to work fine, cool, quiet, battery lasts ages; I even started using sleep mode time to time and now it always wakes up. But I’m running Fedora 44 rawhide (latest development branch, latest kernel).
If nothing else will help, I would encourage you to:
- make sure you have latest BIOS update from Lenovo
- download latest rawhide ISO (for example from here: Index of /fedora/linux/development/rawhide/KDE/x86_64/iso ), live boot to it,
- install some software you normally use, and eventually test your sleep/wake up scenarios.
this can easily be done in half an hour, and you will see if sleep works fine on your system with more recent software, or its a hardware issue.
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Thanks, Upgrading to Fedora 43 seems to have fixed the issue!
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