Hi When I cast to Sony android TV using vlc on gnome manjaro, after 3-10 minutes vlc hangs, tv shows streaming circle which indicates something wrong with vlc. But the wired thing is it also looses internet connection and rebooting fixes it. Any ideas what could be the problem. Wifi pie gets a question mark in it. System is a desktop ryzen 3700x with wifi add in card that works well except when casting. Tried kernel 5.9 and no help.
This wifi disconnect happens when I chromecast using emby server as well
The problem is not vlc or emby server but something in wifi is disconnecting when casting. Updated to the newest router firmware and it’s a modern currently produced asus router.
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Seems to be disconnecting from internet randomly even if not casting.
Here is the output:
System:
Kernel: 5.9.0-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64
root=UUID=a1fbc5d8-24b4-4493-98c1-1a097343397c rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME 3.36.6 tk: GTK 3.24.23 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.36.3
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X570-P v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1405 date: 11/19/2019
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750
serial: <filter> charge: 100% rechargeable: yes status: Full
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M525
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.34 GiB used: 1.12 GiB (3.6%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: N/A microcode: 8701013
L2 cache: 4096 KiB bogomips: 115026
Speed: 3589 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 3591 2: 2054 3: 2052 4: 2113 5: 1857 6: 1855 7: 1863 8: 2787 9: 2053
10: 2052 11: 1862 12: 1861 13: 1863 14: 2793 15: 3594 16: 2053
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc
cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sha_ni skinit
smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm
svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload vgif
vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt
xsaves
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]
vendor: Sapphire Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 0c:00.0
chip ID: 1002:731f
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.9 compositor: gnome-shell driver: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
resolution: <xdpyinfo missing>
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.39.0 5.9.0-1-MANJARO
LLVM 10.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 0c:00.1 chip ID: 1002:ab38
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0e:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.0-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 05:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000
bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 8086:08b1
IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 8.44 TiB used: 387.20 GiB (4.5%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 PRO 1TB size: 953.87 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXP7 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 PRO 512GB size: 476.94 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXP7 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 size: 3.64 TiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5425 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0001
ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 size: 3.64 TiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5425 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0001
ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
rev: 2B6Q
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: PIONEER model: BD-RW BDR-206D rev: 1.56
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 125 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r state: running
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 476.83 GiB size: 476.83 GiB (100.00%)
used: 44.02 GiB (9.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 label: N/A
uuid: a1fbc5d8-24b4-4493-98c1-1a097343397c
ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 110.0 MiB size: 108.3 MiB (98.45%)
used: 549 KiB (0.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 label: N/A uuid: A77D-24FF
ID-3: /home raw size: 476.83 GiB size: 476.83 GiB (100.00%)
used: 44.02 GiB (9.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 label: N/A
uuid: a1fbc5d8-24b4-4493-98c1-1a097343397c
ID-4: /srv/samba/shares raw size: 3.64 TiB size: 3.64 TiB (100.00%)
used: 336.15 GiB (9.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda label: N/A
uuid: a5474573-0f5c-4180-b8ee-ffd1b4b53724
ID-5: /srv/samba/shares/fast raw size: 232.89 GiB size: 232.89 GiB (100.00%)
used: 7.04 GiB (3.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc label: N/A
uuid: 2f4150fb-3312-4b2a-94b6-f252ed2f57c1
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 size: 450.0 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recovery
uuid: 1E98BA0E98B9E505
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 size: 99.0 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A uuid: ECBB-479F
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p3 size: 16.0 MiB fs: <superuser/root required> label: N/A
uuid: N/A
ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p4 size: 952.82 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 6224BD2E24BD05D7
ID-5: /dev/nvme0n1p5 size: 507.0 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: CC88E35288E33A1A
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 046d:c52b
Device-2: 1-3:3 info: Lab126 KFMUWI type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A
interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1949:03c1 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-6:4 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:07dc
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Device-1: 3-3:2 info: Cyber Power System CP1500 AVR UPS type: HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 0764:0501 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-6:3 info: ASUSTek AURA LED Controller type: <vendor specific>
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 0b05:18f3 serial: <filter>
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Device-1: 6-2:2 info: Realtek Card reader type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip ID: 0bda:0326
serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 38 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 403 Uptime: 1d 9h 10m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
clang: 10.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1455 lib: 410 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash
v: 5.0.18 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.1.05
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You’re lucky I’m an editor on this site and have fixed it for you already: no need to do anything this time but other users cannot do that for you. -
You’re on kernel 5.9-rc8. RC means Release Candidate and should not be your primary kernel. Please use the
kernel
GUI application or themhwd-kernel
CLI to install 5.8 or 5.4 LTS (Long Term Support) -
boot/efi raw size: 110.0 MiB size: 108.3 MiB (98.45%)
is nearly out of disk space.
This is not related to your current problem, but will give you problems in the very near future: extend that space ASAHP. -
/home raw size: 476.83 GiB size: 476.83 GiB (100.00%)
Please free up some space now because that might be contributing to your issue. -
Holy moly! Your other drives are pretty full too! Buy some more disk space or
delete some PR0Nfree up more disk space! Filling disks >90% is always a bad idea… -
Swap: Please allocate SQRT(RAM) = SQRT(32) = 6G of swap
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1 - I do apologize as I thought I was doing it correctly. I did check the link you sent about and I’m gonna follow better practice at pasting in commandline output.
2 - I have tried to the 5.4 long-term kernel and the result seems actually even worse. It seems to work for a little longer on the 5.9 version. I can definitely switch back to the long-term release but the only reason it’s on the release candidate is because it actually works slightly better.
3&4 - Funny enough when I used disks application it only shows me 2.2% used up on boot/efi. This has to do with something about the command doesn’t work very well. When I use the disks application it only showed me 9% used on /. So I don’t think running out of disk space is an issue. It might have to do with the fact that I’m using BTRFS instead of ext4. but I’m not sure about boot efi why it’s showing full but I wonder if it’s because it’s a dual boot system that has something to do with it.
5 - Drives are definitely not full and am able to copy data onto them.
6 - I definitely don’t have any swap partition on any of my other computers and I don’t seem to have any issues
7 - I tried disabling IPv6 and it made absolutely no difference.
Thanks for the help in looking at the command line out but I can definitely see why running out of disk space looks like the problem. But I’m thinking that this is to do something with the fact that I use btrfs for my filesystem instead of Ext4. I did update my user profile with more information.
This is something to do with the network and the wonder of swapping out the network card would do the trick. The network card is from an old computer and it seemed to have no issues up to this point. But then again I was never casting to the TV before.
1: No apologies needed: We live and we learn!
2: Stay on 5.9! (I was just asking!)
3&4: My mistake! Djeez, I’m a dumbass! I was looking at the disk instead of the partition section…
5: Yeah, we already determined I’m a dumbass…
6: OK. That’ll only crash your system if you allocate 100% of RAM. If you have tons of RAM for your usage, it’ll actually speed up as it’ll never swap. Just to ensure that is not the problem: could you run in a terminal the following command:
watch --interval=5 "free --human"
and give the output when it happens.
7:
Instead of swapping out the WiFi, can you cast using the Wired network and see it it happens again there? (I don’t use casting, just looking into this from a network perspective, trying to see whether the network is the problem or just the WiFi card)
If using a cable is 30 minutes work instead of 5 minutes, does this help instead of rebooting?
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
6 - This particular system has a lot of ram for what it is using. While it is running Gnome Manjaro and it’s also running a Samba server for sharing files as well as an Emby server for access to some of the media. It generally uses less than 2 GB of RAM and then it uses Libreoffice at the same time to run small spreadsheets and word documents. There is the occasional gimp use but it’s only for small files. So having 32 gigs of RAM it really never needs to use swap files.
7 - I was running out of patience so I decided to swap out the Wi-Fi card. It also will now match the Wi-Fi 6 capability of the router. The new Wi-Fi card uses an Intel chip instead of Realtek and so far after the swap it’s been actually working flawlessly. Maybe not quite flawlessly at the beginning because I forgot the new card has a different MAC address and it took me a couple hours to realize that so that I could reconfigure my router so that my Samba shares and my Emby server could be accessed. But that was just me being a dummy.
Right now I’m just monitoring to see how it works. So far it looks promising, the system will usually disconnect from the Internet within 2 to 5 minutes. Have been casting stuff for hours now and so far so good. I will eventually update in a few days with the SOLVED message if it continues to perform well. I don’t care about the occasional casting hiccup, but even no matter what I do when I cast it shouldn’t have disconnected me from the Internet. More importantly trying to reconnect using the network manager never worked, I had to totally reboot the system to get the Wi-Fi to work. Maybe the network card was actually failing since it worked on this computer flawlessly for months before it started acting up. And it worked in an old computer for years with no issues. But it was never used for video casting before, I wonder if that causes it to overheat and fail.
Thanks for all your help and hopefully this resolves the problem.
So basically the hardware was failing. I just replaced a WiFi card as well, so I should have thought about that first thing! My apologies and congratulations on fixing the issue!
( SOLVED) This random intermittent problem was finally solved by replacing the network card. The new network card it’s a very different card with a different chipset and even different capabilities (WiFi 6). However after about a week of running with the new card there was not a single case of disconnection from the Internet. This must’ve been a hardware failure but it’s hard to say because I’m sure the drivers for the new network card are very different as well. I didn’t have to do anything, I just plugged a new card in and it worked. The only thing I had to do was make adjustments to my router so that it would assign the server the same static IP based on the new Mac address. I’m not sure if it makes any difference but it now communicates using the WiFi 6 protocol since both the network card and a router are capable of the new protocol.
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