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

Sudhir Khanger sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com
Fri Apr 18 15:53:03 UTC 2014


I will check that out but issue is a borked system with the default Fedora
installation.
On Apr 18, 2014 9:01 PM, "Dhaval Anjaria" <dhv2712 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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