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xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

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Re: Random mt7921e driver crashes leading to complete system freeze

Why "the board" would shut down?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Random mt7921e driver crashes leading to complete system freeze

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=295992

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hertz

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Registered: 2024-12-10

Posts: 12

Re: Random mt7921e driver crashes leading to complete system freeze

Here to report yet another driver crash, even with btusb blacklisted, as imagined.
No system freezes in the last couple of times though; managed to power off manually but still hangs at the end.

I still consider the VPN route, as I haven't found anyone with this exact problem yet...
I was using the cli client protonvpn-cli-community from AUR until a couple of weeks ago, but some recent python updates broke it completely and it seems abandoned.
So I'm leaning on the "more official" GUI client for now, which also supports WireGuard.
OpenVPN continuously gives me these type of warnings with this client:

nm-openvpn[1826]: AEAD Decrypt error: bad packet ID (may be a replay): [ #284602 ] -- see the man page entry for --no-replay and --replay-window for more info or silence this warning with --mute-replay-warnings

So I switched to WireGuard, to try it, and actually it's pretty simple and fast, don't have any sort of problem for now, even if the crashes remain.

I also updated to 6.12.8, which seems that improves the driver too, but apparently not for this problem.
I'll continue to test other options that come to mind, let's see with the next updates.