High CPU usage, temperature, and load average leaving a new Fedora 20 KDE install unbootable on Thinkpad T420i

[Dhaval Anjaria]

I suppose you've tried looking into cpufreq governers?
 On 18 Apr 2014 13:26, "Sudhir Khanger" <sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I installed Fedora 20 KDE on Thinkpad T420i and upgraded to the latest
> which left the system unbootable. My initial impression was that this was
> kernel related as kernel was upgraded from 3.11.10 to 3.13.9 and booting
> into 3.11.10 was working fine.
>
> I have tried this several times to replicate the issue.
>
> In another try I did the same installed, upgraded and system was left
> unbootable. This time I disabled kdm and logged into tty. System was
> working fine. I installed i3 and used it for a while under 3.13.9 without
> any problem. Then I decided to run KDE and it was working fine.
>
> So in a nutshell install, upgrade and KDE won't boot but if you log in
> once in tty or another window manager and then back into KDE and it would
> work fine.
>
> I filed a kernel bug report which might not be even valid anymore.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085478
>
> I have been using Fedora 20 KDE since the release and it had always worked
> fine. I am not so sure about the current oddities.
>
> Thanks.
>
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