Yes, I’m getting random freezes all the time. Some of them have had backtraces that get reported (most notably 2360515 – [abrt] gnome-shell: pushbuf_dump(): gnome-shell killed by SIGSEGV ). This stuff seems to have started with Fedora 42. Before 42 I found Fedora to be rock solid stable… but starting with 42 it’s constant freeze-ups and problems.
Random freezes/crashes are often symptoms of hardware problems, so system dependent. If you have similar hardware, you may be able to contribute here. If your hardware is different, you need to start a new topic and include hardware details (output from running inxi -Fzxx in a terminal and posted as pre-formatted web searchable text using the </> button). By fully upgrading Fedora packages and vendor firmware, you can make it easier for others with similar hardware to reproduce your configuration.
It’s not been established that it is a hardware problem. And the OP possibly hasn’t figured out where to look for the backtrace to see if it’s the same issue (to quote: “I’m still learning.”). Gnome on F42 and F43 has been super unstable for me as well as the OP. I didn’t have these problems on F41 or before… and the main change is the switch to Wayland-only. And all the crashes and hangups are clearly happening in the graphics stack.
I also have an NVIDIA graphics card, though mine is older (GeForce GTX 650). I’m not using KDE. And I suspect that the RDSEED32 thing is a red herring and unrelated to their video freeze-ups.
@sepe056 sometimes if you wait for a little longer, you might get a notification of a crash… and it’ll bring up the “problem reporting” dialog. You have to click on “Report” for it to go through the trouble of creating a backtrace. For me I get it with the GNOME desktop notifications. I’m sure there’s some similar notification system on your KDE set-up.
Note that you hijacked a thread from another user about a similar problem and they have not posted for more than 3 days, though their problem has not yet been confirmed as solved.
You really should have opened your own thread for your own problem since it is not likely that you have exactly the same hardware and software config, especially since your GPU is different and the OP was using f43 KDE but you claim your problem started with f42 and continues on f43 with gnome.
I will simplify things for you. Your initial post in the other thread and responses have been moved to a new topic where your problem can be discussed as its own issue instead of trying to solve 2 different problems in one topic.
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