Hearing the KDE hardware disconnect sound over and over on some boots, is there a way to identify which device is disconnecting?

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Am using spin KDE Plasma 6.3.0 on Fedora 41. Randomly, on some boots (like between startup and shutdown, not just during startup), I will hear the hardware disconnect sound played over and over and random intervals usually less than 30 seconds. Rebooting makes it stop, logging out and back in doesn’t. I realize this could be entirely my hardware’s fault, but is there any way I can find out which piece it is? A log of connections and disconnections, perhaps?

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Look in the system journal, possibly a USB device having an issue.
Also possible you will see messages in sudo dmesg.

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