# Random freezes with Arch Linux (requires hard reboot)

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**Category:** Linux\
**Tags:** arch\
**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/random-freezes-with-arch-linux-requires-hard-reboot/64139 "2025-02-04T20:07:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Nobis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christian\_Nobis](https://community.frame.work/u/Christian_Nobis)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/random-freezes-with-arch-linux-requires-hard-reboot/64139/4 "2025-02-05T08:50:14Z")

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I had similar Problems. Ramdomly freezing of the desktop, start of a second sddm-loginscreen 5 minutes after login, graphical glitches in menue.

I always hoped that it woulöd get better after some updates. But (for what I can tell after 3 or 5 hours of testing afterwards) there where two things that made the system stable again:

1. I switchted to another KDE-Plasma-Themes after I saw errors in journalctl refering to deprecated funtion calls in the theme I used. Now I’m back to one of the stock themes (beeze dark)
2. For the flickering: It went way after I applyed this Kernel-Paramter found in this thread: [Screen flickering on Linux kernel 6.12 - #17 by haykh](https://community.frame.work/t/screen-flickering-on-linux-kernel-6-12/62632/17)

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