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!