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#1 2019-11-25 20:12:37

CarbonFixer
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Registered: 2013-10-19
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System reboots after steam client inhibits power management

My computer reboots some time (could be 0 minutes, could be 2 hours) into playing a steam game.
These are always the last few line of the journal prior to the reboot:

Nov 25 21:34:25 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie  6
Nov 25 21:34:25 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Restoring DPMS features after inhibition release
Nov 25 21:34:25 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with co>
Nov 25 21:34:25 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:34:30 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with coo>
Nov 25 21:34:30 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added change screen settings
Nov 25 21:34:30 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added interrupt session
Nov 25 21:34:30 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Disabling DPMS due to inhibition
Nov 25 21:34:30 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:34:55 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie  7
Nov 25 21:34:55 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Restoring DPMS features after inhibition release
Nov 25 21:34:55 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with co>
Nov 25 21:34:55 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:35:00 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with coo>
Nov 25 21:35:00 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added change screen settings
Nov 25 21:35:00 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added interrupt session
Nov 25 21:35:00 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Disabling DPMS due to inhibition
Nov 25 21:35:00 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:35:14 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie  8
Nov 25 21:35:14 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Restoring DPMS features after inhibition release
Nov 25 21:35:14 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:35:28 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with co>
Nov 25 21:35:33 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with coo>
Nov 25 21:35:33 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added change screen settings
Nov 25 21:35:33 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added interrupt session
Nov 25 21:35:33 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Disabling DPMS due to inhibition
Nov 25 21:35:33 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:35:55 My-Desktop DiscoverNotifier[758]: using... PackageKit::Transaction(0x5632e2b1b6f0) "/3_ebcebdbb"
Nov 25 21:35:58 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie  9
Nov 25 21:35:58 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Restoring DPMS features after inhibition release
Nov 25 21:35:58 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with co>
Nov 25 21:35:58 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:36:03 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with coo>
Nov 25 21:36:03 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added change screen settings
Nov 25 21:36:03 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added interrupt session
Nov 25 21:36:03 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Disabling DPMS due to inhibition
Nov 25 21:36:03 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:36:28 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie  10
Nov 25 21:36:28 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Restoring DPMS features after inhibition release
Nov 25 21:36:28 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with co>
Nov 25 21:36:28 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:36:34 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with coo>
Nov 25 21:36:34 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added change screen settings
Nov 25 21:36:34 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added interrupt session
Nov 25 21:36:34 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Disabling DPMS due to inhibition
Nov 25 21:36:34 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:36:38 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie  11
Nov 25 21:36:38 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Restoring DPMS features after inhibition release
Nov 25 21:36:38 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck
Nov 25 21:36:47 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with co>
Nov 25 21:36:53 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.15" "My SDL application" with coo>
Nov 25 21:36:53 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added change screen settings
Nov 25 21:36:53 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Added interrupt session
Nov 25 21:36:53 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Disabling DPMS due to inhibition
Nov 25 21:36:53 My-Desktop org_kde_powerdevil[785]: powerdevil: Can't contact ck

This is a known issue with steam, but not to the point of crashing the system:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … ssues/5607

Could this be related to the sudden reboots?
I tried stress testing the system in various ways outside of steam (unigine, memtest, gputest) and could not reproduce the reboots.
Any ideas on how to verify and/or solve the issue?

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