Hi everyone,
I’d upgraded to Fedora 41 from 40.
After upgrading, my machine suddenly crashes in middle of nothing and logs me out of my account. I need to login every time this crash happens.
Hardware and Software Combo that I’m using are as follow :
I can’t find any logs related to crash. Last few lines of logs from dmesg
Thank you,
enslaved46
Have a look at both the system journal and the user journal for clues.
I had a similar issue and it was driving me nuts. Wanted to open a thread about this, found yours.
In my case I was logged out randomly sometimes moving a weindow “too fast” or opening too many tabs on Chrome, or start compiling a heavy nodejs program in Visual Studio Code… so I was thinking it was a memory issue or so…
In my case I got it solved at login screen, clicking the “settings” icon (bottom right) and choose Gnome on Xorg.
This looks like the kernel wasn’t affected, so you should note the time you got logged out and use journalctl to see if there are “interesting” entries around the time of the crash.
I’m having the exact same issue, found your thread while Googling around.
Fedora Linux 41
Kernel: 6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64
AMD Ryzen 5 4600U
Found the following related in the journal, makes sense why switching to Xorg should fix it (but is not really a fix in my opinion)
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop gnome-shell[49178]: (EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop unknown[47619]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop kgx[53564]: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop xdg-desktop-por[48096]: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop unknown[47586]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop unknown[47560]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop gnome-software[47695]: Lost connection to Wayland compositor.
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop gsd-wacom[47647]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop xdg-desktop-por[48122]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop unknown[47572]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop gsd-media-keys[47574]: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop systemd[47221]: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop systemd[47221]: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop systemd[47221]: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
dec 02 14:13:17 my-laptop systemd[47221]: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Do not worry. Fedora always crashes after 2-3 days of use for no reason. From v39-41. Sometimes it allocates too much ram and not giving back all of it. Swap technology is good but sometimes it gets laggy when too much ram is used (or not used but still taken). After steam play or multi tab firefox use. Don’t know whats the problem. If massive crash, Just restart or hard reset solves all the problems. Its a crash, at first i thought pc wont come back on after monitor timeout, but it just crashes for no reason. Fresh install, many times. Still using it 
. I tried debian for example, it was online the whole month and no issues, but fedora runs everything out of the box without too much hassle, so … its still the best os u can use, runs many windows programs faster than windows itself and so on
Fedora does crash more than less “cutting edge” distros, but most issues are resolved with updates once a user provides the details needed to understand the cause. There are “free rider” users who may complain without doing the necessary work due to other demands on their time. When starting with linux it may take some time to learn how to investigate an issue, but the secret to the success of linux is the community.
None of my fedora systems do this. It is not normal at all.
I beg to disagree Sir! Lets keep this thread on target 
That’s pretty odd Dmitri,
I have run Fedora on servers for years and the only time they get rebooted is when there is a security update needed. This means they could be running for several months without rebooting or crashing. Also, I run Fedora on many of my desktop computers and laptops and being the lazy soul that I can be at times, these machines may not get rebooted for several months.
I may have some hardware problems, very subtle but still. There are some issues with every distro* from time to time, different people, but what i know, they are quite stable. It is difficult to make sure what excactly causes the issue, allways takes time to solve. When win10 started to hang (not frequenly) at high load it was getting suscpiciopus (although every linux distro was allways more reliable). Debian did not hang or freeze but i used it like for two weeks and it was very light on resources. Even played some games. I was surprised that all games except asetto corsa worked out of the box and everything did not need to set up from ground up, maybe flatpacks saved the distro and now it is very confortable to use. My PC is getting worse and probably something with power distribution. I had two different kinds of wifi cards over two years in the same slot and sometimes it did reset (+ freeze but only on a linux distro there was a complete hang for some reason, windows just lost its connection). Removed the card from that slot- problem solved but now the fault is getting to other areas as well :D. In conclusion- i have to take all my words back. Some updates my cousin’s fedora/nobara had were quite bad but solved quickly with some tmp fix and later with another update it was not the case anymore. My PC is Very slowly dying. 2 Years probably. Maybe it is better to puit it to sleep and not torture the poor thing. Old as hell.
LOL… Send it to the glue factory … LOL