Can you switch to a TTY when it hangs (Ctrl + Alt + F2-F6)? If so just read the kernel message log (dmesg
). The tail (pardon the pun) end of it should indicate any h/w issues (dmesg | tail -n 20
-- it should be in the most recent 20 lines). I'm afraid IDK where you'd find Wayland's error logs, I'm still on X11.
When it hangs I am unable to switch to TTY. However when I run sudo journalctl -u sddm. I get this error at the time the crash happened:
Feb 14 05:21:17 fedora systemd[1]: Started sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Feb 14 05:21:17 fedora sddm-helper[1550]: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which i>
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) m>
for more information.
Feb 14 05:21:17 fedora sddm-helper[1550]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm(uid=990)>
Feb 14 05:21:24 fedora sddm-helper[1766]: Detected locale "C" with character encoding "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which i>
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) m>
for more information.
Feb 14 05:21:24 fedora sddm-helper[1766]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb 14 05:21:24 fedora sddm-helper[1766]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb 14 05:21:25 fedora sddm-helper[1766]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user devpie(uid=1000) by d>
Feb 14 05:21:25 fedora sddm-helper[1766]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Feb 14 05:21:25 fedora sddm-helper[1766]: Starting Wayland user session: "/etc/sddm/wayland-session" "/usr/libe>
Feb 14 05:54:39 fedora sddm[1546]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL "Process crashed"
Feb 14 05:54:39 fedora sddm[1546]: Auth: sddm-helper (--socket /tmp/sddm-auth-ef6f37e9-04e3-4c2d-a453-cbe0377c6>
Feb 14 05:54:39 fedora sddm[1546]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL "Process crashed"
Feb 14 05:54:39 fedora sddm[1546]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1
Feb 14 05:54:40 fedora sddm[1546]: Signal received: SIGTERM
Feb 14 05:54:40 fedora systemd[1]: Stopping sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager...
Feb 14 05:54:40 fedora systemd[1]: sddm.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 14 05:54:40 fedora systemd[1]: Stopped sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager.