Crashing and kernel panics when on battery power

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Hi,

I’ve been having an issue for about 2 months now (though I don’t know the exact start date) where my Framework will crash when running off battery power. When I unplug, it usually works for between 10 seconds and 2 minutes. Then usually Firefox and kwin plasma crashes (if they are running, though it happens when they are not running also). 30 seconds to 1 minute after that, the whole computer will lock up, and only a hard reboot will fix it—often however, I will have to reboot several times this way to get back to the functioning desktop. It may throw an error at GRUB or stop on a black screen or otherwise. During the initial freeze or reboot, a Kernel panic is common, often rendering in a corrupted way. Often, journalctl sends a message about overwriting its last boot log file due to corruption.

As long as I keep my laptop plugged in, I don’t have these issues. Having it in battery performance mode also seems to mitigate it or make it happen less frequently (not yet confirmed though).

I have tried switching to X11 based Fedora Plasma, resetting the BIOS config, and making sure my entire package ecosystem is up to Fedora 44. None of these have helped. I know strongly suspect this is a BIOS/kernel level power issue, which is why I’m posting here.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.26.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.0.10-201.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 18 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 125H
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1)
System Version: A2

uname -r (kernel version): 7.0.10-201.fc44.x86_64

Bios info:

Vendor: INSYDE Corp.
Version: 03.06
Release Date: 08/08/2025
ROM Size: 16 MB
product: Intel(R) Core™ Ultra 5 125H
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.170.4

Thank you!

Kernel panics persisting across OS installs
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This sounds like a hardware problem to me. (Another user like you)

Contact FW support via their web site form and see if they can help.

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I saw your most recent post in a separate topic/thread. Posting in only one topic/thread will make it easier for others to follow (I think you can merge your threads - ask a forum moderator if you need help).

Until you can get some more info (like from kdump as you mentioned), support is likely your best option.

FWIW, I have a core ultra series 1 125H running ubuntu 24.04 lts (kernel 7.0.0-14-generic, X11, bios updated to 3.07) for a little more than a year now. I’ve had one crash (with some similar symptoms you describe - processes locking up followed by a crash over a 1-2 min period) that I believe was related to my samsung 990 pro (1TB) nvme drive. In my case, there was some pretty obvious signs the device could not read/write to the nvme over this period. I updated the nvme firmware and have not had a crash since (about 6 months ago).

So while your working with support and trying to get some additional error messages, you can see if you can update your nvme firmware (assuming an update is available and you haven’t already tried this).

Another intel 125H/fedora user had hardware issues with the intel igpu (link here). This apparently was a hardware issue and needed a main board replacement. You can have a look through your logs for similar errors.

Seems like a hardware issue to me, but you’ll need more info to narrow it down. Good luck.

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