Arch Linux

kalmuneiu

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Registered: 2018-08-14

Posts: 46

Arch crashes when connecting to the internet

Hi,

as I said in topic a friends fresh arch install crashes, but only when we are connecting to the wlan of the router, otherwise it runs stable indefinetly. As this happens I am unable to install new software, if not booting live cd and doing arch-chroot but this is just annoying and in addition we want to play diablo3.

We tried the distribution garuda which is arch based and it does not crash when connecting to the internet after fresh install, but when we update the system. So there might be a bug in some package am I wrong?
I do not get an crash when installing arch beeing connected to the wlan doing pacstrap followed by arch-chroot and then installing new software via pacman.

Could there be an wlan stick issue I am not aware of? It is external by Asus I can't remember the exact chip now, but I looked it up and the driver is supposed to be in the kernel, so it should not be an wlan stick issue am I wrong?

As it crashes no log is written so no chance to debug.

I use iwctl to connect to the wlan, which I first thought to be the culprit, but I am having another computer with arch install, with almost similar hardware, but different wlan stick, which will not crash using iwctl beeing on the most up2date arch system.
But I don't think this is a wlan issueas it runs stable when on live cd with the card being detected out of box.

I have not tried in 2 weeks was there an issue with a package anyone knows of that made arch crash when updating?
If this is not the case, could someone post detailed instructions on how to remote debug? Do I just connect via ssh and do journalctl or what is the way to do this correctly? Is ssh enabled by default or do I have to enable it? Can I actually connect via ssh to a crashed machine? You can link arch wiki pages too, as I am running arch now for quite some time meaning years, so I think I am affin to find my way through but I never had this problem with any arch install I did throughout the years.

Any help appreciated thx in advance as I am kinda tired of google search, which will yield no result. If u need further info pls ask for  it,
kind regards Chris

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,963

Re: Arch crashes when connecting to the internet

Please post a full system journal for a boot with the issue even if it shows nothing.  It will at least indicate the network card and kernel version for example.

kalmuneiu

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Registered: 2018-08-14

Posts: 46

Re: Arch crashes when connecting to the internet

Yeah I will do but dont have the time right now so please be patient

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,259

Re: Arch crashes when connecting to the internet

If you're using a mediatek USB device then there's a known crash in the 6.1 kernels. But to verify we'd need the logs