New day, new observations: Laptop was off for hours, all night - but connected to charger 1. 4.12.14-lp151.26.4 glxinfo hangs, hard power off (because system freezes after selecting shutdown or reboot in plasma5) 2. 4.12.14-lp151.26.4 glxinfo hangs, hard power off 3. 4.12.14-lp151.25.4 everything works as expected!!! reboot 4. 4.12.14-lp151.26.4 everything works as expected!!! shutdown 5. 4.12.14-lp151.26.4 everything works as expected!!! These are not the results I had hoped for - it is probably indeed better to take care of this just for upstream - which so far has not worked once.