Occasional system and screen freezes, FEDORA 42

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Wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issues where

  1. Sometimes there is a complete system freeze (mouse and keyboard input is gone and resetting the usb connection doesn’t do anything, system wont even go to screen lock automatically and that is how I know it is frozen). The only thing I can do is reboot.

Now usually when something like this occurs it could indicate a memory issue and so I have ran through two consecutive tests of the memory with Memtest86 and there were no errors. I can only system a driver issue perhaps but not sure.

  1. I would be working and all of a sudden one of the monitors appears to go dead on me, either goes black or there is no refresh. I’ve seen people say this could be a Wayland issue and going CTRL+ALT+1 or CTRL+ALT+3 and then CTRL+ALT+2 fixes the issue but that doesn’t work at all for me. Also tried another suggestion to add amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and regenerate grub2 but that didn’t help.

For both of the above this is something I didn’t esperience with FEDORA 41.

In case this can help, my system is composed of :

  • 9800 X3D
  • Asrock X870
  • RX 7900 XTX

And yes in case people wonder, as I know there are issues with CPUs dying, I am on the latest 3.30 BIOS and I sometimes use my system on Windows 11 24H2 where I do not get any of those issues (Windows as other issues, well it being WINDOWS if you know what I mean :wink: ).

Anyway, wonder if any of you have this issue and if there is anything I could try that could help fix this.

Thanks

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There are likely to be clues in the system journal and user journal.
Have a look in both around the time that you see the issue.

How do you do the reboot? forced power off? Or something else?
If its a forced power off then you may loss the logs with error details.

Do you have another system that you can use to ssh into the hung machine?

FYI - I have a related GPU the RX 7800 XT that is working fine.
The 7800/7900 GPUs seem to usually be free of issues.

That may be becuase you where on an older kernel on f41.

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@barryascott

It was a forced poweroff. I haven’t tried to ssh into the machine as it appear to be completely frozen but I could enable sshd on this machine and try and login.

And yes I agree, Fedora 41 was obviously on a much older kernel so there may still be bugs to be sorted out in Fedora 42 and newer kernels.

I did manage to find a few weird things in journalctl but nothing that would explain a system freeze or a window free or perhaps it is just me that doesn’t understand.

Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/libexec/mysqld"
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: QList("--defaults-file=/home/tessierp/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/h>
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net aoknadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "2025-08-25 10:58:07 0 [Warning] Can't create test file '/home/tessier/.local/share/akon>
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"
Aug 25 10:58:12 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3592]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: See "/home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err" for more details

Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net sddm-helper-start-wayland[1887]: "No backend specified, automatically choosing drm\n"
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net sddm-helper-start-wayland[1887]: "Accepting client connections on sockets: QList(\"wayland-0\")\n"
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 116 affinity: Permission denied
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: IRQ 116 affinity is now unmanaged
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 114 affinity: Permission denied
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: IRQ 114 affinity is now unmanaged
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 112 affinity: Permission denied
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: IRQ 112 affinity is now unmanaged
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 110 affinity: Permission denied
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: IRQ 110 affinity is now unmanaged
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 119 affinity: Permission denied
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: IRQ 119 affinity is now unmanaged
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 117 affinity: Permission denied
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: IRQ 117 affinity is now unmanaged
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 115 affinity: Permission denied
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: IRQ 115 affinity is now unmanaged
Aug 25 10:57:49 somesystem.net irqbalance[1493]: Cannot change IRQ 113 affinity: Permission denied


Aug 25 11:09:01 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SMU: response:0xFFFFFFFF for index:36 param:0x00000003 message:SetWorkloadMask?
Aug 25 11:09:01 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Failed to set workload mask 0x00000003
Aug 25 11:09:01 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: (-121) failed to disable fullscreen 3D power profile mode
Aug 25 11:09:11 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State
Aug 25 11:09:11 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SMU: response:0xFFFFFFFF for index:41 param:0x00000000 message:DisallowGfxOff?
Aug 25 11:09:11 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Failed to disable gfxoff!
Aug 25 11:09:27 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SMU: response:0xFFFFFFFF for index:41 param:0x00000000 message:DisallowGfxOff?
Aug 25 11:09:27 somesystem.net kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Failed to disable gfxoff!

Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.8-200.fc42.x86_64.conf:6: Unknown line 'grub_users', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.8-200.fc42.x86_64.conf:7: Unknown line 'grub_arg', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.8-200.fc42.x86_64.conf:8: Unknown line 'grub_class', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64.conf:6: Unknown line 'grub_users', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64.conf:7: Unknown line 'grub_arg', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64.conf:8: Unknown line 'grub_class', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-0-rescue.conf:6: Unknown line 'grub_users', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-0-rescue.conf:7: Unknown line 'grub_arg', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-0-rescue.conf:8: Unknown line 'grub_class', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64.conf:6: Unknown line 'grub_users', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64.conf:7: Unknown line 'grub_arg', ignoring.
Aug 25 14:36:40 somesystem.net systemd-logind[1507]: /boot/loader/entries/ed3991a0a95240cfb5acb6779334be27-6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64.conf:8: Unknown line 'grub_class', ignoring.

Although I doubt the the last part is causing these issues, not sure why I’m getting those grub warnings…

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This problem happens to me as well but the trigger on my system coincides with browsing to websites like Amazon with tons of popup or rollover animations. I have had to seriously work on tweaking my browser settings and using a few extensions. I have also had to seriously curtail the eye candy as well due to suspend/Sleep/wake issues but I can run KDE quite nicely. In fact this 2014 Lenovo Idea Pad is running better than it ever did .

Quick peek:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.7-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 80E3
System Version: Lenovo G50-45

Originally came with Win8 preload, dual booted with fedora within 15 days. Blew away windows partition in a year and is pure fedora 42 with new SSD and RAM upgrade.

Sometimes it lets me into a virtual terminal but 99% of the time it is hard reboot. I know, new laptop time. Its just sad it took this long for this box to be so otherwise excellent.

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Trigger for me is mostly when I program in Jetbrains Rider. I do have a couple of browsers open for documentation and other things I need to research while I code for possible a combination of many things.

There is something interesting that I see at times, my monitors will quickly flicker, not enough for the screens to go dark, and quick enough that it is very subtle.

I only have to force reboot when the system as a whole freeze with the keyboard not responding. When it is just my “screen” freezing, I can hop into a virtual session, go to the terminal and reboot. About 80% of the time I’m able to do so.

Just now I had the session close on me without me asking for it (that issue is new) and it seems to point to something Wayland / Plasma

ug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_wayland_drm: Atomic modeset test failed! Permission denied
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_core: Applying output configuration failed!
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net systemd[2124]: Stopping plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace...
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net plasmashell[2795]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray/contents/ui/items/PlasmoidItem.qml:208: TypeError: Cannot read property 'fullRepresenta>
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net plasmashell[2795]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray/contents/ui/items/PlasmoidItem.qml:201: TypeError: Cannot read property 'compactReprese>
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net plasmashell[2795]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray/contents/ui/items/PlasmoidItem.qml:24: TypeError: Cannot read property 'toolTipMainText>
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_wayland_drm: Atomic modeset test failed! Permission denied
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_core: Applying output configuration failed!
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_wayland_drm: Atomic modeset test failed! Permission denied
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_core: Applying output configuration failed!
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_wayland_drm: Atomic modeset test failed! Permission denied
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2498]: kwin_core: Applying output configuration failed!
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net plasmashell[2795]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray/contents/ui/items/PlasmoidItem.qml:208: TypeError: Cannot read property 'fullRepresenta>
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net plasmashell[2795]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray/contents/ui/items/PlasmoidItem.qml:201: TypeError: Cannot read property 'compactReprese>
Aug 25 18:15:52 somepc.net plasmashell[2795]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray/contents/ui/items/PlasmoidItem.qml:24: TypeError: Cannot read property 'toolTipMainText>
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Fedora 41 gets the same kernels as 42 does, at the same time.

So if it is kernel related issue then f41 would have done the same hang potentially.

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It’s very likely that the journal logs that may explain the issue never male it to disk in that case.

Use ssh you can run journalctl -f to stream the logs as they are created.

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Yeah I guess I’ll have to do that now that I enabled SSHD on this machine and wait until the issue occurs, hopefully that way I catch the issue live.

I did a little bit more research and seems I’m not the only one reporting these kind of issues on reddit with these being more frequent on Fedora 42.

Anyway I’ll wait and see if I can catch the issue live.

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Alright I thought I would share this.. There are a few warnings when I start the system and a very big error that stand out and was wondering if anyone could have a look and tell me if they have any idea if these could cause serious issues.

WARNINGS (mixed with information level logs) :


Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "/modules/oom-notifier"
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: kf.dbusaddons: The kded module name "oom-notifier" is invalid!
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net systemd[2120]: Started plasma-ksmserver.service - KDE Session Management Server.
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "/modules/plasma-session-shortcuts"
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: kf.dbusaddons: The kded module name "plasma-session-shortcuts" is invalid!
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "/modules/kded_plasma-welcome"
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: kf.dbusaddons: The kded module name "kded_plasma-welcome" is invalid!
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "/modules/wpad-detector"
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: kf.dbusaddons: The kded module name "wpad-detector" is invalid!
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: colord: X11 not detect disabling
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kconf_update[3004]: kf.config.kconf_update: /usr/share/kconf_update/filepicker.upd defined Version=5 but Version=6 was expected
Aug 26 12:36:08 somesystem.net kded6[2830]: kf.bluezqt: PendingCall Error: "Could not activate remote peer 'org.bluez': unit failed"
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[1]: Starting sssd-kcm.service - SSSD Kerberos Cache Manager...
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=sssd-kcm comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[1]: Started sssd-kcm.service - SSSD Kerberos Cache Manager.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net sssd_kcm[3225]: Starting up
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: Discarding cached sleep adjustment data for bus /dev/i2c-9. EDID has changed.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: Discarding cached sleep adjustment data for bus /dev/i2c-9. EDID has changed.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[2120]: Started dbus-:1.1-org.kde.kdeconnect@0.service.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[1]: bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net kdeconnectd[3240]: Cannot find a compatible running Bluez. Please check the Bluez installation. QtBluetooth requires at least BlueZ version 5.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[1]: bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net kdeconnectd[3240]: kdeconnect.core: No local bluetooth adapter found
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[2120]: Started dbus-:1.1-org.freedesktop.Notifications@0.service.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: busno=6, Feature 0xdd should not exist but ddc_get_nontable_vcp_value() succeeds, returning mh=0x00 ml=0x64 sh=0x00 sl=0x64
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net cupsd[1755]: REQUEST localhost - - "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 566 Create-Printer-Subscriptions successful-ok
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[2120]: Finished plasma-ksplash.service - Splash screen shown during boot.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net systemd[2120]: plasma-ksplash.service: Consumed 263ms CPU time, 65M memory peak.
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: busno=6, Feature 0x41 should not exist but ddc_get_nontable_vcp_value() succeeds, returning mh=0x00 ml=0x64 sh=0x00 sl=0x64
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: busno=6, Feature 0x00 should not exist but ddc_get_nontable_vcp_value() succeeds, returning mh=0x00 ml=0x64 sh=0x00 sl=0x64
Aug 26 12:36:09 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: busno=6, All features that should not exist detected. Monitor does not indicate unsupported
Aug 26 12:36:10 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: Library initialization complete.
Aug 26 12:36:10 somesystem.net org_kde_powerdevil[2974]: org.kde.powerdevil: [DDCutilDetector]: Failed to initialize callback
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "Save All" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "&Yes" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "Yes to All" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "&No" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "No to All" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "Abort" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "Retry" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net keepassxc[3383]: kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "Ignore" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: "@action:button"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net easyeffects[3354]: Unknown key gtk-modules in /home/tessierp/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net ckb-next[3353]: ckb-next 0.6.2
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net ckb-next[3353]: Path to settings: "/home/tessierp/.config/ckb-next/ckb-next.conf"
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net systemd[1]: Started packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon.
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=packagekit comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net easyeffects[3354]: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net xdg-desktop-por[2594]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 3354: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net jetbrains-toolbox[3361]: 12:36:11.716 | INFO  | main                      | ToolboxEntry              | pid: 3361
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net akonadi_control[3675]: Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server...
Aug 26 12:36:11 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Failed to open "/home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data" to modify flags ( 2 )

ERRORS

Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: database server stopped unexpectedly
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection!
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/libexec/mysqld"
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: QList("--defaults-file=/home/tessierp/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket", "--pid-file=/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.pid")
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: ""
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "2025-08-26 12:36:11 0 [Warning] Can't create test file '/home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ptr1-pc-1.lower-test' (Errcode: 2 \"No such file or directory\")\n\x07/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/' (Errcode: 2 \"No such file or directory\")\n2025-08-26 12:36:11 0 [ERROR] Aborting\n"
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error"
Aug 26 12:36:16 somesystem.net akonadiserver[3700]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: See "/home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err" for more details
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Does the time of the errors match the time of a freeze?

Have you look at this file to see if it explains why mysql failed?

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In this case I didn’t get a freeze no but I do see this error come up quite a bit.. Is it linked to the screen or system freeze, I have no clue.

here is the trace from mysql.err

2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] Starting MariaDB 10.11.11-MariaDB source revision e69f8cae1a15e15b9e4f5e0f8497e1f17bdc81a4 server_uid p1rzo0/QdA0uJU8qvkM7bEgj5R8= as process 16839
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Warning] option 'innodb-log-buffer-size': unsigned value 1048576 adjusted to 2097152
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.3.1.zlib-ng
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of transaction pools: 1
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using AVX512 instructions
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 128.000MiB, chunk size = 2.000MiB
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initialized memory pressure event listener
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffered log writes (block size=512 bytes)
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: End of log at LSN=374698
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segments are active.
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12.000MiB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12.000MiB.
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: log sequence number 374698; transaction id 502
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_buffer_pool
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '10.11.11-MariaDB'  socket: '/run/user/1000/akonadi/mysql.socket'  port: 0  MariaDB Server
2025-07-02 17:55:57 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 250702 17:55:57
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld (initiated by: unknown): Normal shutdown
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) to /home/tessier/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ib_buffer_pool
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 250702 17:57:06
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] InnoDB: Removed temporary tablespace data file: "./ibtmp1"
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 374698; transaction id 523
2025-07-02 17:57:06 0 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete
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That logs show a “normal shutdown “ but triggered by unknown.

Unless you see apps failing like kmail I would ignore this.

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I am having the same issue. Its annoying me for a month now. I have tried wiping and reinstall workstation 42 again. It still freezes on me.

I have dual booted Windows and Fedora but never used windows until now. On windows, I tried using it for 2 days and its stable. Tried gaming for couple of hours to see if fans are a problem. But it handles it.

I want to try maybe other spin or a different OS altogether.

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This could be a GNOME or graphical card issue. May I ask if you are using any GNOME extensions ?

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If that was the case then he would also have issues under Windows. The fact is, I’m experience similar issues he does on my own system while under Windows I don’t get these system freeze or screen freeze issues.

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I chose Fedora because it was updated more frequently but I guess that comes at the price of stability. I’ve configured my entire system to me able to do everything except gaming but, I may find myself in the same boat as you and look for another distro at this point. But I’m not quitting just yet. Fedora 43 is right around the corner and will wait and see. I hope I don’t have to change, I like Fedora and changing would mean a lot of work to prepare a new system again….

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The hypothesis of GNOME third party extensions causing issues like freezing is not to be ruled out. It maybe worth checking the GNOME shell logs:

  • journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
  • journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-session

I had similar issues in the past, and I was able to prevent the freezes by disabling all the third party GNOME extensions.

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My issue happens and I’m under KDE. Also, R Shambles didn’t mention Gnome so it is very unsure if his situation could be related to Gnome.

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I think I finally found what causes one of my monitors to freeze.. Interestingly enough this happens when I code with RIDER using the Avalonia plugin, I guess the rendering it needs to do causes the same issues some people have been experiencing when gaming.

Sep 14 01:17:12 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Sep 14 01:17:12 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues
Sep 14 01:17:12 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'
Sep 14 01:17:13 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Sep 14 01:17:13 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues
Sep 14 01:17:13 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'
Sep 14 01:17:14 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Sep 14 01:17:14 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues
Sep 14 01:17:14 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'
Sep 14 01:17:15 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Sep 14 01:17:15 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues
Sep 14 01:17:15 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'
Sep 14 01:17:16 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Sep 14 01:17:16 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues
Sep 14 01:17:16 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'
Sep 14 01:17:17 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver
Sep 14 01:17:17 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: Please report this at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues
Sep 14 01:17:17 somepc.net kwin_wayland[2431]: kwin_wayland_drm: With the output of 'sudo dmesg' and 'journalctl --user-unit plasma-kwin_wayland --boot 0'

Many people have been reporting this issue on github.freedesktop.org.

I tried to switch to another TTY and come back but it doesn’t work. The only solution is to reboot. I hope this will get fixed soon.

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Mine freezes so much it’s become normal. I had to reboot twice in quick succession because it freezes up IMMEDIATELY after logging into KDE desktop.

I only get a CHANCE of a stable system for every boot.

Not that this post adds anything of value except for ‘me too.’ I’ve posted about my issue some time ago.