At boot, if I press ESC to disable plymouth (and display dmesg in the tty) I see an error message:
iwlwifi: invalid buffer destination
Any idea of how to ascertain why this appears, and how to remediate it?
I’ve asked partially to provide a possible answer to the others asking this at Reddit - Dive into anything.
We need more information in order to understand the issue. Please post the result from running inxi -Fzxx in a terminal (as pre-formatted test using the </> button from the top line of the text entry panel).
Some reports for this error mention lack of free mass storage space.
cat -vbET '/etc/os-release' | Select-String 'CPE_NAME' has only ever returned cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, but I’ve upgraded my packages many times. Usually every night, for approximately 4 months. Apologies for not being able to provide a better identifier - I’ve asked How to acquire specific release of installed OS? but not received an actionable answer yet.
Noteworthily, a few days ago, I endeavoured to install Windows 11 to attempt to diagnose whether Random Indefinite System Hang and crash - #10 by rokejulianlockhart was the fault of amdgpu drivers bundled in the kernel, or a fault with my hardware. I’d also been having trouble witn a network card’s Bluetooth 5.1 connection, which I’d noticed had been outputting a significant amount of iwlwifi errors in dmesg.
The first few times I installed Windows, I would immediately see a Startup Repair dialog on the bootloader to initiate chkdsk, and it would then BSOD and bootloop. After scouring the internet, I learnt that some PCIe network cards using Intel chips can cause significant problems with Windows. Indeed, removing my PCIe x2 BT 5.1 and Wi-Fi 6 card elimited 99% of the iwlwifi errors and allowed Windows to install without fault. I don’t use that card anymore, because although it might be significantly better at its job than my motherboard’s in-built one, it appears to introduce both visible and invisible problems across OSes.
I’ve installed Windows 11 Pro 24H1 or 24H2 (I’m on Release Preview). However, solely one iwlwifi error remains in dmesg when booting Fedora, so I’d like to diagnose that too, to ensure that I’ve no additional as-yet unknown problems with my build. Note that the chipset I’m using now is in-built to the motherboard, and consequently can solely be disabled on a hardware level from the UEFI’s GUI.
inxi -Fzxx
returns
System: Kernel: 6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 2.41-37.fc40 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma) Machine: Type: Desktop System: ASRock product: X670E Taichi v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Mobo: ASRock model: X670E Taichi serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.21 date: 04/26/2023 Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 3 serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging CPU: Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 rev: 2 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 6 MiB L3: 32 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2255 high: 5246 min/max: 400/5453 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 4351 4: 5161 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 4360 9: 5246 10: 5147 11: 400 12: 400 bogomips: 112809 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-1 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:731f Device-2: AMD Raphael driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, HDMI-A-2, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 59:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e temp: 35.0 C Device-3: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-3:4 chip-ID: 046d:085e Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: N/A display-ID: 0 Monitor-1: DP-1 res: 2560x1440 size: N/A API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.1.2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 (radeonsi navi10 LLVM 18.1.6 DRM 3.57 6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:731f display-ID: :0.0 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.283 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:731f device: 1 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:164e device: 2 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 Audio: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38 Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 59:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 59:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 Device-4: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-3:4 chip-ID: 046d:085e Device-5: Generic USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-8:3 chip-ID: 26ce:0a06 Device-6: TONOR TC30 Audio Device driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-9.2:5 chip-ID: 5678:1234 API: ALSA v: k6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin Network: Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] vendor: Rivet Networks Killer driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 49:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725 IF: wlp73s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Realtek Killer E3000 2.5GbE vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: a000 bus-ID: 4a:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:3000 IF: enp74s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-7:2 chip-ID: 8087:0032 Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3 lmp-v: 12 Drives: Local Storage: total: 4.1 TiB used: 1.92 TiB (46.9%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: PC401 HFS256GD9TNG-62A0A size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 30.9 C ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Addlink model: M.2 PCIE G4x4 NVMe size: 1.82 TiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 30.9 C ID-3: /dev/nvme2n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 32.9 C ID-4: /dev/nvme3n1 vendor: Addlink model: M.2 PCIE G4x4 NVMe size: 1.82 TiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 40.9 C Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.82 TiB used: 349.18 GiB (18.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme3n1p3 ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 386.3 MiB (39.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme3n1p2 ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 50 MiB (8.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme3n1p1 ID-4: /home size: 1.82 TiB used: 349.18 GiB (18.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme3n1p3 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 1.24 GiB (15.6%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 46.2 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 39.0 C mem: 40.0 C fan: 3351 Info: Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.47 GiB used: 12.66 GiB (41.6%) Processes: 504 Power: uptime: 1h 9m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Packages: 42 pm: flatpak pkgs: 33 pm: snap pkgs: 9 Compilers: clang: 17 gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: pwsh running-in: script inxi: 3.3.34
My / drive is 23% full:
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I’ve upgraded my packages many times. Usually every night, for approximately 4 months.
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What we need to know is whether F40 was a fresh install or upgraded from an earlier version like F39, and whether the issue was present on F39. There are probes for Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 wifi hardware in the LHDB, but just one for your motherboard. Your “sub-vendor” is Rivet Networks. Intel docs often refer you to the sub-vendor to resolve issues, but Intel bought Rivit in 2020, so you should be able to get help directly from Intel.
Quoting Intel Community:
Please file a new case so that we can properly support you.
Intel Support: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support.html
By the way, I'm truly sorry, it should be Intel® System Support Utility for the Linux* Operating System.
It’s only ever been a Fedora 40 KDE Spin installation. I was using openSUSE TW at the time of F39.
Thanks. I’ll contact https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support.html if TP-link and ASRock aren’t of any use, since the PCIe card - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09VPQ6NP6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1, which appears to be a rebrand of the Archer AXE5400 - is sold by TP-Link, and per HW probe of ASRock X670E Taichi Desktop Computer #3641e3c6d3, my motherboard is an ASRock 670E Taichi.
https://download.asrock.com/BIOS/AM5/X670E%20Taichi(3.10)ROM.zip [1] appears to have entirely remediated it.
However, I’ve also removed that faulty TP-LINK PCIe NIC, because it prevented me accessing the Windows 11 Pro OOBE after OS installation by BSoD’ing the OS, and prevented me accessing winlogon.exe if I re-installed the NIC afterward:
How to use PowerShell select-string to find more than one pattern in a file? - Stack Overflow allowed me to see that even with it connected, it didn’t actually cause the logs anymore.