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R6400 crashing overnight with high SY and high WA
My R6400 (F/W V1.0.1.36_1.0.25) has crashed overnight two nights in a row. After the first crash, I started running two telnet sessions from my laptop to the router (via wi-fi) - one running top and ...
Thanks for your research and help. I was thinking the same - that it's the internal storage that's failing. It is now occuring at least once a day, randomly. I wonder if there is a way to run something like a chkdsk on the internal storage device? I'd hate to have to trash the router for something that should be fixable.
> <3>[598396.820000] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry
> [edcf50]
I know nothing, but a quick Web search suggests that "Squashfs is a
compressed read-only file system for Linux.", which suggests that you're
looking at router firmware, not data on your external USB device(s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
> <3>[598396.620000] SQUASHFS error: xz_dec_run error, data probably
> corrupt
"xz" sounds like (some form of) LZMA compression. A "mount" command
should tell you which file system is used on each mount point ("type
XXXX"). Might be informative.
Thanks for your research and help. I was thinking the same - that it's the internal storage that's failing. It is now occuring at least once a day, randomly. I wonder if there is a way to run something like a chkdsk on the internal storage device? I'd hate to have to trash the router for something that should be fixable.