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Choosechee

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Registered: 2026-08-03

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KDE Plasma freezes and becomes unresponsive sometimes

Devuan Version: Excalibur
Init System: runit
Display Server: X11

Sometimes my KDE Plasma session freezes and becomes unresponsive, maybe every 1-2 days or so. It starts with everything freezing except my mouse. After some time, windows become responsive again, and I can use them normally. However, my panels and desktop continue to be frozen and cannot be interacted with until I restart. I've tried to look at Plasma's logs, but I'm not sure where they are. ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log aren't timestamped, so I don't know where to look in them, /var/log/sddm.log is empty, and /var/log/runit/sddm seems to only contain a log for the current session. Does anyone know how to fix this, or can help with finding relevant logs?

Choosechee

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Registered: 2026-08-03

Posts: 2  

Re: KDE Plasma freezes and becomes unresponsive sometimes

It turns out that if I restart plasmashell when this problem occurs, it won't even fix itself; the panels don't even reappear. And worse, it still outputs normal logs without any errors. So, this problem is worse than I thought, and I still don't know what to do.