Random crashes after changing laptop power settings

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So you have an issue in your user profile and finding out which exact setting you changed is going to take weeks if not months, therefore, we’re going to do the following:

  • Verify that the new user has access to the same groups as your old one by executing groups and comparing the output of both users.

    groups k3rnelpanic
groups k3rnelpanic2

    (Where obviously, k3rnelpanic is your old user and k3rnelpanic2 is your new one.)
    E.G. if k3rnelpanic is a member of operator and k3rnelpanic2 isn’t, execute:

    usermod --append --groups operator k3rnelpanic2

  • Copy all data files from your old profile into your new one

    cp --verbose --recursive --preserve=time-stamps /home/k3rnelpanic/Documents/* /home/k3rnelpanic2/Documents/

    If that worked and you had no errors, remove the documents from your old user:

    rm --recursive /home/k3rnelpanic/Documents/*

    repeat for:

    • Pictures
    • Videos
    • Music
    • .thunderbird
    • .mozilla/firefox/
    • Templates, and everything else that is important to you.
    • Linux games like Battle of Wesnoth have their game data stored under ~/.local/share/ E.G. ~/.local/share/wesnoth/

    After everything has been copied over, disable the old user so you cannot accidentally log on:

    usermod --lock k3rnelpanic

    If you would have theming going on, don’t do everything in one day but do this at the rate of 1 application / theme / whatever per day and if the same issue crops up again, roll back your last change and thus you’ve now pinpointed the exact setting that made your old user misbehave. :thinking:

  • in 1 month delete the entire home directory of your old user, but don’t delete the user itself so that in 6 months time files still owned by that user will still show up under its username.

  • If you ever migrate to a new machine, just don’t migrate the old user: only the new one.

  • From now on, start making backups so you can roll back and never have to do this again:

Probably not, or it would have been mentioned in the issues underneath the last release notes

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