I’ve been experiencing an occasional issue where the CPU fan doesn’t spin up until I reboot. When I run the sensors command, the cros_ec-isa-0000 section lists cpu@4c as FAULT and the fan1 speed as 0 RPM.
Rebooting always fixes the issue. I’m not sure how frequently this happens because the fan is usually pretty quiet. I haven’t contacted support because this feels like a Firmware bug.
Distro: Arch Linux w/ CachyOS Kernel (although I remember seeing this before on stock Arch Linux).
Kernel: 6.11 (but not new to this release).
Laptop: Framework AMD 13.
That’s strange. That is something I have never experienced in my Framework AMD 13. Perhaps BIOS update or looking for kernel update. Could also be a hardware problem but mostly those problems have software solutions, as a first step.
I am on stock Arch Linux (but LTS kernel) and I’ve experienced this multiple times. I’ll be in a video conference for work and notice that my temperature reading in my status bar shows 99℃ and my fan isn’t spinning at all. Just like you, I’d reboot and then suddenly my fans would roar on at their highest speed because the laptop was literally hot enough to boil water.
Distro: Arch Linux
Kernel: 6.6 LTS (Can’t go more specific because I don’t remember which point release I was on the last time it happened. It was within the past month.)
Laptop: Framework AMD 13.
Yeah it’s happened to me once too this week, thought I was going crazy. A reboot fixed it - I should have tried using ec-tool to see if manually setting the fan controller to 100% then auto would fix it but next time.
If you run a load do you ever see a RPM reported? One person had erratic fan behavior and one of the fan connector pins was bent.
You could also check ectool to see what the temperature/fan settings are. Maybe something is out of wack, a sensor is reporting something weird or a sensor stops reporting.