Random log-out on F40 and F41, how to solve?

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From time to time I get logged out from my Fedora GNOME while I am doing stuff. I haven’t been able to pin point the problem, yet. I always use a bunch of browsers, LogSeq program, Thunderbird, Telegram and not much else.

I have a suspect that the random log-out is caused by some component crashing, probably due to the Ferdium program. Still I can’t find logs that say that Ferdium is the source of this.

As soon as I log back in, I open the Logs app and read the logs but really I can’t understand much.

Can someone help me out ?

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You can check the list of latest crashes with coredumpctl list. With coredumpctl info you can see the details of the latest crash, and with coredumpctl info <pid> the details of a specific crash (replace <pid> with the id of the process).

If the crash is gnome-shell itself, then in the Stack trace you might see which component is causing it.

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BTW, with Ferdium do you mean the Ferdi app? I didn’t know about this app, so I’ve just checked, and it is Electron based.

Unfortunately I have seen several issues reported here with Electron apps crashing.

You can test to see if without it being used, you’re still experiencing log-out issues.

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Yep, I just started Ferdium and the system crashed logging me out. But other times when I start & use ferdium, this does not happen!

I may open an issue on their github…

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