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#1 2015-12-25 12:47:58

fahrgast
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Registered: 2015-02-26
Posts: 36

System reboots when starting Plasma Desktop

Today I have had a disturbing problem with my computer. I was browsing the web when, spontaneously, the system has rebooted itself. No error messages, just a reboot.

After booting, sddm is started again. When I start a plasma session from sddm the system reboots again before loading the session (I can see the progress bar below the "K" logo, but the reboot happens before it is complete).

I have repeated the process a couple of times, one of them following the journal and the Xorg log from another computer, but I can't see any messages that look related to this problem (as far as I understand).

I have tried using only the ttys and the system remains stable. I have stopped sddm and started X (with startx) and I can use Firefox or Konsole (just two examples) without any problems. The system looks stable.

I think it's a problem related with Plasma Desktop, but it might be also hardware related because in one of the reboots the computer has made a loop of reboots before even loading grub. Hardware is my second guess, however.

How could I find out the reason of these reboots?

Merry Christmas.

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#2 2015-12-27 15:27:28

midixinga
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Registered: 2014-01-18
Posts: 196

Re: System reboots when starting Plasma Desktop

did you try another user?

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