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System restarts when forcing quit of frozen applications
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Description
### What Happened?
I am experiencing a recurring issue on Elementary OS 8.1. When a daily-use application freezes (such as GIMP, Blender, RapidRaw, or even the Elementary AppCenter), the “application is not responding” message appears. If I choose “force quit,” the entire system restarts instead of just closing the application.
This happens even during normal tasks with light files, on a powerful notebook (modern CPU, 40GB DDR5 RAM, fast SSD, NVIDIA GPU). The issue occurs in both safe mode and X11.
### Steps to Reproduce
Open any daily-use application.
If the application freezes, select “force quit.”
Observe that the system restarts completely instead of just closing the application.
### Expected Behavior
### OS Version
8.x (Circe)
### OS Architecture
amd64 (on most hardwares)
### Session Type
Secure Session (Wayland, This is the default)
### Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
### Log Output
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### Hardware Info
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