Experiencing somewhat frequent window manager crashes which closes programs

Was experiencing this issue and another more severe freezing issue; possibly due to compromised system that will likely be completely reworked including a bios flash; also could have been addressed starting to use Iron Ferrite Chokes wrapped multiple times (3 to 6) on power & Ethernet cables which has solved or helped a number of other issues.

https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/sporadic-lockups/35599/3?u=shelled

Ferrite, Chokes, and RFI

Running an older AMD APU & Vega 56; experiencing issues with lockups seems to be the window manager or graphics stack crashing (started happening after the Plasma 6 Update); closes all windows after a black screen (no longer freezes completely); reinstalling all packages (through Garuda Assistant) has helped the issue for a few weeks at a time but then issues continue.

Sometimes Firestorm Second Life Viewer Audio is still running requiring a system restart to fix the issue.

Was only happening in Hardened at first; seems to be all kernels now when using basic streaming video in web browsers for example; also might have gotten better after kernel 6.8.

Could have something to do with strange system behavior such as bookmarks being created in LibreWolf without user interaction sometimes many times after a session of use.

Cheers, much appreciated.

Kernel: 6.7.11-hardened1-1-hardened arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: pti=on
page_alloc.shuffle=1 BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-hardened
root=UUID=ee9d8e46-88f6-40bb-a345-3b374ebb4edb rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet rd.luks.uuid=5d766ada-bbea-4479-b984-c5950293753b quiet
rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.3 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.0.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: A88XM-PLUS v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 3004 date: 04/14/2017
Battery:
Device-1: ps-controller-battery-1c:96:5a:c3:bb:50 model: N/A serial: N/A
charge: N/A status: full
CPU:
Info: model: AMD A10-7850K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Steamroller level: v2 built: 2014 process: GF 28nm
family: 0x15 (21) model-id: 0x30 (48) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x6003106
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x16 KiB; i-2x96 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 2x2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3391 high: 3869 min/max: 1700/3700 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 3869 2: 3648
3: 2648 4: 3401 bogomips: 29536
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Vega 10 XL/XT [Radeon RX 56/64] vendor: XFX Pine
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm
built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-3
empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:687f
class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-3 res: 1360x768 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.0.4-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX Vega (radeonsi vega10
LLVM 17.0.6 DRM 3.57 6.7.11-hardened1-1-hardened) device-ID: 1002:687f
memory: 7.81 GiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 7 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
Radeon RX Vega (RADV VEGA10) driver: mesa radv v: 24.0.4-arch1.2
device-ID: 1002:687f surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 1 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 17.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe
v: 24.0.4-arch1.2 (LLVM 17.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK AM1I-A driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Vega 10 HDMI Audio [Radeon 56/64] driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1
chip-ID: 1002:aaf8 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.7.11-hardened1-1-hardened status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.4 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK H81M-C driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 37 GiB (3.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 PRO Series
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B0Q scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 238.46 GiB size: 238.46 GiB (100.00%) used: 37 GiB (15.5%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-5d766ada-bbea-4479-b984-c5950293753b
ID-2: /home raw-size: 238.46 GiB size: 238.46 GiB (100.00%)
used: 37 GiB (15.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-5d766ada-bbea-4479-b984-c5950293753b
ID-3: /var/log raw-size: 238.46 GiB size: 238.46 GiB (100.00%)
used: 37 GiB (15.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-5d766ada-bbea-4479-b984-c5950293753b
ID-4: /var/tmp raw-size: 238.46 GiB size: 238.46 GiB (100.00%)
used: 37 GiB (15.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-5d766ada-bbea-4479-b984-c5950293753b
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.3 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 4 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 22.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 33.0 C
mem: 26.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 398
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.3 GiB used: 5.89 GiB (18.8%)
Processes: 249 Power: uptime: 1h 36m states: freeze,mem suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1492 libs: 479 tools: octopi,paru Compilers:
gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: Bash v: 5.2.26 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.33
Garuda (2.6.23-1):
System install date:     2023-03-11
Last full system update: 2024-04-02
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot:       <superuser required>
Failed units:

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