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

[Sudhir Khanger]

I have not. I tend to use defaults of things that I don't understand. I had
another instance this afternoon where KDE failed to boot. It seems like a
hit and miss issue.

Regards,
Sudhir Khanger.
sudhirkhanger.com
https://github.com/donniezazen


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Dhaval Anjaria <dhv2712 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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