Gnome 48 session freezes after some time

In the past 4 days I did a fresh install of the following distributions, in order:

  • Debian 13 testing
  • Cachy OS
  • Fedora 42 (what I’m currently using)

All of them ship Gnome 48, and in all of them I experienced the same issue: after some time, the session freezes, laptop fans start spinning at max speed and laptop becomes super hot.

After force powering off the laptop, looking at coredumpctl and journalctl there is no sign of any crash, error message, or whatever could cause this freeze. Also I started monitoring CPU, RAM and temperature and they are all fine before the freeze happen so it doesn’t seem related to OOM, memory leak or temperature.

My laptop is a Dell XPS 13 7390 (Intel i7-10510U, 16GB RAM, Intel Cometlake (Gen9) GPU), connected to a ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 docking station and a 4k screen.

No idea what to do and how to collect additional info. Any help appreciated!

PS. Gnome 48 is awesome! Really nice job to anyone involved

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In the past 4 days I did a fresh install of the following distributions, in order:

Newer version of distro also means newer kernels. What kernel versions are on the 3 distros ?

Maybe install an older kernel (version which didn’t have the issue) and check.

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I’m having the same problem, and can’t figure it out…but KDE does work without crashing (but it’s ugly). Any tips would be appreciated. I’m sorry all I can add is a ME TOO

Edited to add: the problem showed up after upgrading from Fedora 41 → 42, but even booting into previous kernels doesn’t fix the problem.

Hey there – try switching your CPU profile to Balanced instead of Performance; this seems to have stabilized my machine (for now)…

I just enabled the tuned service and assured it was set to balanced. I will report back if this fixes things.

My issues with freezing of my environment have been ongoing for at least a month and a half. Indeed, as one of the previous forum members stated, I as well checked resource utilization and saw nothing out of the oridinary.

Stuart