Solved Consistent crashing for two months on two distros

[blu2ns]

No, so my headphones are normally bluetooth, and when they are on bluetooth the audio lags, when I plug them in however, the audio lag doesn't happen.
I found the WIFI channel restriction in the GUI and set it to 5ghz.
That didn't fix the issue. Here is the output from bmon.
lo bmon 4.0
Interfaces │ RX bps pps %│ TX bps pps %

lo │ 104B 2 │ 104B 2

qdisc none (noqueue) │ 0 0 │ 0 0
enp14s0 │ 0 0 │ 0 0
qdisc none (fq_codel) │ 0 0 │ 0 0
wlan0 │ 0 0 │ 0 0
v qdisc none (noqueue) │ 0 0 │ 0 0
───────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
KiB (RX Bytes/second) KiB (TX Bytes/second)
8.52 .......|.................................................... 8.52 .......|....................................................
7.10 .......|.................................................... 7.10 .......|....................................................
5.68 .......|.........|.......................................... 5.68 .......|.........|..........................................
4.26 .......|.........|.......................................... 4.26 .......|.........|..........................................
2.84 .......|.......|.|.......................................... 2.84 .......|.......|.|..........................................
1.42 ::::::||::::::||:||:|....................................... 1.42 ::::::||::::::||:||:|.......................................
1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
RX TX │ RX TX │ RX TX │ RX TX │ RX TX
Bytes 11.54MiB 11.54MiB│ Packets 45.33K 45.33K │ Abort Error - 0 │ Carrier Error - 0 │ Collisions - 0
Compressed 0 0 │ CRC Error 0 - │ Dropped 0 0 │ Errors 0 0 │ FIFO Error 0 0
Frame Error 0 - │ Heartbeat Erro - 0 │ ICMPv6 2 2 │ ICMPv6 Checksu 0 - │ ICMPv6 Errors 0 0
Ip6 Address Er 6.68K - │ Ip6 Broadcast 2B 0 │ Ip6 Broadcast 0 0 │ Ip6 CE Packets 0 - │ Ip6 Checksum E 0 -
Ip6 Delivers 64 - │ Ip6 ECT(0) Pac 0 - │ Ip6 ECT(1) Pac 152 - │ Ip6 Forwarded - 85 │ Ip6 Header Err 0 -
Ip6 Multicast 0 0 │ Ip6 Multicast 0 0 │ Ip6 No Route 64 0 │ Ip6 Non-ECT Pa 0 - │ Ip6 Reasm/Frag 0 0
Ip6 Reasm/Frag 0 0 │ Ip6 Reasm/Frag 0 0 │ Ip6 Reassembly 0 - │ Ip6 Too Big Er 64 - │ Ip6 Truncated 0 -
Ip6 Unknown Pr 0 - │ Ip6Discards 0 0 │ Ip6Octets 11.62KiB 0 │ Ip6Pkts 85 0 │ Length Error 0 -
Missed Error 0 - │ Multicast - 0 │ No Handler 0 - │ Over Error 0 - │ Window Error - 0

I saw 'Ip6 Address Er 6.68K', and I'm wondering if it's errors with IPv6?

I decided to disable IPv6 and see what would happen. Before I did this the errors were at 10.34k.

lo bmon 4.0
Interfaces │ RX bps pps %│ TX bps pps %

lo │ 973B 7 │ 973B 7

qdisc none (noqueue) │ 0 0 │ 0 0
enp14s0 │ 0 0 │ 0 0
qdisc none (fq_codel) │ 0 0 │ 0 0
wlan0 │ 0 0 │ 168B 2
v qdisc none (noqueue) │ 0 0 │ 0 0
───────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
KiB (RX Bytes/second) KiB (TX Bytes/second)
591.38 ........................|................................... 591.38 ........................|...................................
492.81 ........................|................................... 492.81 ........................|...................................
394.25 ........................|................................... 394.25 ........................|...................................
295.69 ........................|................................... 295.69 ........................|...................................
197.13 ........................|................................... 197.13 ........................|...................................
98.56 :::::::::::.:::::::::|::|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.:: 98.56 :::::::::::.:::::::::|::|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.::
1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 1 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
RX TX │ RX TX │ RX TX │ RX TX │ RX TX
Bytes 28.79MiB 28.79MiB│ Packets 94.52K 94.52K │ Abort Error - 0 │ Carrier Error - 0 │ Collisions - 0
Compressed 0 0 │ CRC Error 0 - │ Dropped 0 0 │ Errors 0 0 │ FIFO Error 0 0
Frame Error 0 - │ Heartbeat Erro - 0 │ ICMPv6 2 2 │ ICMPv6 Checksu 0 - │ ICMPv6 Errors 6 0
Ip6 Address Er 10.61K - │ Ip6 Broadcast 2B 0 │ Ip6 Broadcast 0 0 │ Ip6 CE Packets 0 - │ Ip6 Checksum E 0 -
Ip6 Delivers 89 - │ Ip6 ECT(0) Pac 0 - │ Ip6 ECT(1) Pac 152 - │ Ip6 Forwarded - 189 │ Ip6 Header Err 0 -
Ip6 Multicast 0 0 │ Ip6 Multicast 0 0 │ Ip6 No Route 89 0 │ Ip6 Non-ECT Pa 0 - │ Ip6 Reasm/Frag 0 0
Ip6 Reasm/Frag 0 0 │ Ip6 Reasm/Frag 0 0 │ Ip6 Reassembly 0 - │ Ip6 Too Big Er 89 - │ Ip6 Truncated 0 -
Ip6 Unknown Pr 0 - │ Ip6Discards 0 0 │ Ip6Octets 35.19KiB 0 │ Ip6Pkts 189 0 │ Length Error 0 -
Missed Error 0 - │ Multicast - 0 │ No Handler 0 - │ Over Error 0 - │ Window Error - 0

Sadly disabling IPv6 didn't work. The crash still happened but it took longer. I then decided to disable 5ghz and try just 2.4ghz.
That time there was no crash. There was some audio lag and a bit of video lag tho. I would be okay with just staying on 2.4ghz but I was only getting 30Mbps compared to the 200-250 I normally get, so I would like to be able to use 5ghz.

 

[Trml]

Ok, I don't see anything else that hints at errors as well. Some of the error categories would spike if it was wifi congestion or something like that, and those are all normal. I don't know what the "Ipv6 Address er" might mean. Perhaps it is just a failure to resolve a host to IPv6. Sadly 5Ghz can still be hit and miss on Linux, but it can change quickly. When you started the thread you had already tried a number of kernel options, it should be worthwhile looking into specific 5Ghz issues with the chipset. I see it is marketed as AX210, indeed a widely used Intel chipset. That should raise probability to find troubleshooting tips - the chipset is the important part. I saw https://community.frame.work/t/guide-possible-solution-for-ax210-issues/38200 a suggestion to disable ax mode (first post, a bit old). Ultimately, it is all a bit fishing in the blue, have a look at the thread. Searching the linux kernel wireless issues for chipset related bug reports is also a good source.

 

[blu2ns]

Ok, I don't see anything else that hints at errors as well. Some of the error categories would spike if it was wifi congestion or something like that, and those are all normal. I don't know what the "Ipv6 Address er" might mean. Perhaps it is just a failure to resolve a host to IPv6. Sadly 5Ghz can still be hit and miss on Linux, but it can change quickly. When you started the thread you had already tried a number of kernel options, it should be worthwhile looking into specific 5Ghz issues with the chipset. I see it is marketed as AX210, indeed a widely used Intel chipset. That should raise probability to find troubleshooting tips - the chipset is the important part. I saw https://community.frame.work/t/guide-possible-solution-for-ax210-issues/38200 a suggestion to disable ax mode (first post, a bit old). Ultimately, it is all a bit fishing in the blue, have a look at the thread. Searching the linux kernel wireless issues for chipset related bug reports is also a good source.

UPDATE: skip me giving up, I decided to un give up. Check my next message for solution.

Well I tried a bunch of new stuff I found but at this point I'm just so sick of this issue and it only happens in some games. I think I'll use USB tethering with my phone for games with issues for now (because that works completely fine) and then eventually get ethernet. I might change my mind eventually but I am sick of this issue. I know there will probably be someone coming along this thread with the same issue really hoping that this thread has a solution so I'm sorry to them, but I spent enough time on this. Thank you so much for your help but I don't really know if this issue is truly fixable for me.

 

[Trml]

You're welcome. Yes, you have done a lot of analysing, searching and trial-error fixes, plus even bought extra hardware to address it. Good you found a stable work-around for your main issue nonetheless. Regarding wifi perhaps check occasionally if updated modules automagically better it - always remove custom kernel module options to test if you do. Intel wifi chips used to be a save bet for stable Linux support, perhaps they improve again.

 

[blu2ns]

Okay so I know I said I'd give up but I hadn't started on getting ethernet yet and then I started having crashes in deep rock galactic all of a sudden so I decided to give it another shot. I'm updating this post in case anyone needs the troubleshooting ideas. I talked with an AI to do some rapid troubleshooting and it told me to limit my Wi-Fi card's PCI slot to gen 3 instead of gen 4. It said that my Wi-Fi card can't even use all of gen 2 speeds, so if it doesn't work for future people looking at this thread, they can try gen 2. It also said to disable ASPM in the BIOS.
After I limited the speed to gen 3 and turned off ASPM it worked. During toubleshooting before I fixed it I found out that doing a speed test would instantly force a crash due to high internet use. After the changes I could run a speed test and download a game at the same time in the background and I had minor issues (just a couple of small lag spikes). I tried some things to fix those minor lag spikes, but it only happened when pushing my internet speed as far as it could go, so I decided that I'd leave it like that, because I normally don't have that much network usage and it was only like 5 small lag spikes in half an hour. I've played a bunch of deep rock galactic and snowrunner since and it has been great.

TLDR: Try limiting your wifi card to a generation back and disable ASPM and that might fix it. If that doesn't fix it, try 2 generations back. If you do fix it with this, and also have some lag spikes with high usage, just disable background downloading in steam and that should fix the lag.