Riddle me this: unsolicited orderly shutdown

[Dotan Shavit]

Nice indeed.
Have you tried starting this app from a different desktop environment?
What syslog says at the shutdown time?

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 12:18, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:

> Allow me, if I may, to set up the stage for you.
>
> I don't know the precise scenario that causes this to happen, but one
> thing that triggers it reliably is starting up X-Plane 11 and taking off. A
> few second and up to a minute into the flight, my KDE "shutting down"
> screen comes up. If I cancel the shutdown, the screen comes up one more
> time on its own, and then the computer just shuts down.
>
> Now, I know what you're all thinking. So I ran X-Plane while monitoring
> the CPU's and GPU's temperatures. Sure enough, they get hot. I opened up
> the laptop (Dell XPS 15, a gamer's laptop), cleaned the fans, and ran the
> game again. Temperatures were much more reasonable. But the shutdown screen
> popped up again.
>
> I ran it with dmesg running. While there are some temperature throttling
> messages, not a lot, and none that claim I *have* to shut down.
>
> I am looking for a way to debug this. Obviously, something in the hardware
> gives the command to shut down the computer. I have, however, not been able
> to find out what and why.
>
> Does anyone have any idea which system might be issuing this command, and
> where it might be writing its logs?
>
> Shachar
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