Fedora 36 - CPU Fan speeds going very fast at random

Hi there,

I am having an odd thing happen when my screen locks (due to inactivity).

Specifically, when I let the system lock and screen turn off, the CPU fan turns on full noise (top speed), or possibly GPU fans I need to verify this.

Then turns off, though it feels as though it could go on and stay stuck permanently on. I am also having other power management issues (unable to wake it up when it hibernates/sleeps).

I have recently updated from Fedora 35 to 36 Beta Workstation edition, I didn’t have this issue earlier.

I noticed there are newer kernel versions available :slightly_smiling_face:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8

Though unsure if its safe to upgrade to those perhaps a downgrade would be better.

[isaiah@fedora ~]$ neofetch
             .',;::::;,'.                isaiah@fedora 
         .';:cccccccccccc:;,.            ------------- 
      .;cccccccccccccccccccccc;.         OS: Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Editi 
    .:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:.       Kernel: 5.17.4-300.fc36.x86_64 
  .;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;.     Uptime: 14 hours, 22 mins 
 .:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:.    Packages: 2341 (rpm), 12 (flatpak) 
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc:ccccccc:.   Shell: bash 5.1.16 
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW::cccccccc,   Resolution: 2560x1440 
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc:   DE: GNOME 42.0 
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM0OOk.;cccccccccccc:   WM: Mutter 
cccccc:0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc;   WM Theme: Adwaita 
ccccc:XM0';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc'   Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc;    Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd:ccccccccccccccc;     Terminal: gnome-terminal 
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0::cccccccccccccc:,      CPU: Intel i5-3570K (4) @ 3.800GHz 
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,.       GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 470/480/570/570 
:cccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'.         Memory: 5856MiB / 15944MiB 
.:cccccccccccccccccccccc:;,..
  '::cccccccccccccc::;,.                                         
                                                                 


[isaiah@fedora ~]$ 

Look into system monitor whenever you observe any anomaly how does your cpu and gpu usage %