Fedora KDE Plasma 43 slowly crashing

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I’ve been experiencing the same problem with Fedora 42-43, especially since kernel 6.18.5-200.

System Specs:

OS: Fedora 43
MB: MSI B650 Tomahawk; 32 GB RAM
Kernel: 6.18.7-200.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.5 (Wayland)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Driver: Linux kernel AMD
Monitor: Asus ProArt 60Hz
SSD: 4 TB WD SN7100
(System is dual-booting with Win10 on its own SN7100 nvme. No problems on Win10 side.)

Same symptoms with desktop eventually slowing running up to crash with NVME going read-only and journal unable to write. Often this has occurred during journal rotation. It happens more during browser use - either Firefox or Chrome. Sometimes system is stable for days without shutdown. Since I’m not using Nvidia, obviously that’s not a factor for me.

I’ve checked nvme and RAM: no problems. Also happens with booting from a USB-mounted Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB nvme. Power cycling reboots system with no problems and journalctl -xb is useless. Reinstalling OS gives same results. I’ve seen some reports that power management at either BIOS or OS level might cause these symptoms. So far I haven’t been able to pin down problem. Seems to be no clues that are consistent. One report claims a conflict between OS fstrim event and journal rotation scheduling but I don’t see consistent such conflicts in my logs.

Definitely annoying. Oddly enough I seldom get a crash during long hours of gameplay on Steam. Go figure.

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I know you said you tried booting with your Samsung NVMe, but switching to my older and worse NVMe (went from the KC3000 to a generic 512GB one) fixed the issue for me, went these 24 days without a single crash. Maybe it’s a power supply issue? Or if you could try to test a weaker SSD? The arch forum I linked earlier brings some power-saving nuking configurations you could try as well.

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I also have the same issues but crashing more often. Basically every few minutes.

OS: Fedora 42 (newer Kernels) or 43
Razer Blade 14 2023
KDE Plasma
Ryzen 7 7940HS
Nvidia RTX 4070 Laptop Edition

SSD is a Samsung MZVL21T0HCLR (OEM Disk)

Getting any logs is quite hard as anything but Fedora Silverblue completely crashes the kernel (Silverblue enters some weird state where the DE is still running but nothing is actually usable)

while my desktop has 0 issues:
Fedora 43
KDE Plasma
Gigabyte X470 Ultra Gaming
Ryzen 7 2700
Nvidia GTX 1080
Samsung 970 EVO Plus