KDE Powerdevil keeps crashing in remote desktop sessions #200

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opened 2023-02-17 02:21:14 +00:00 by a · 1 comment

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2023-02-17 02:21:14 +00:00

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I already found a workaround for this bug, but I'm documenting it here. After the Plasma 5.27 update, Powerdevil keeps crashing and spamming the logs with the following stuff:

Feb 17 02:18:55 exozyme systemd[216971]: Starting Powerdevil...
Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: plasma-powerdevil.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: plasma-powerdevil.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: Failed to start Powerdevil.
Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: plasma-powerdevil.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 553.
Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: Stopped Powerdevil.

Yes, 553 times.

The solution is to mask the Powerdevil service with sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/user/plasma-powerdevil.service so that it doesn't start in the first place.

I already found a workaround for this bug, but I'm documenting it here. After the Plasma 5.27 update, Powerdevil keeps crashing and spamming the logs with the following stuff: ``` Feb 17 02:18:55 exozyme systemd[216971]: Starting Powerdevil... Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: plasma-powerdevil.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: plasma-powerdevil.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: Failed to start Powerdevil. Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: plasma-powerdevil.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 553. Feb 17 02:19:01 exozyme systemd[216971]: Stopped Powerdevil. ``` Yes, 553 times. The solution is to mask the Powerdevil service with `sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/user/plasma-powerdevil.service` so that it doesn't start in the first place.