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

[Dhaval Anjaria]

The Fedora docs do have a very good page on how to configure them. If not,
there's always the Arch wiki. It's not very difficult so I think it might
help you.
On 18 Apr 2014 19:51, "Sudhir Khanger" <sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com> wrote:

> 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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