Bug 483491 - Major system crash when connecting wired lan while wifi is on in Neon 6
Summary: Major system crash when connecting wired lan while wifi is on in Neon 6
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Keywords: qt6
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-03-13 22:27 UTC by Aaron Wolf
Modified: 2024-03-13 22:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Aaron Wolf 2024-03-13 22:27:26 UTC
SUMMARY

I had a long while back done something with tlp-rdw or some other something to get wifi to turn off when I connected wired LAN. However, I haven't had TLP installed for a long while due to whatever incompatibility that goes with updated KDE Neon. Anyway, I don't have a fresh install, so I don't know if this is a quirk of my setup.

The experience is: Prior to KDE Neon 6 release, I could disconnect from dock, wifi turned on, and I could connect back to dock and wired LAN. Now, when I disconnected, wifi did not turn on. I was able to turn it on with the system tray Networks option. Then, when reconnected to dock, whether that session or after restarting, I tried many variations: the whole system was extremely slow, I couldn't even get a prompt in a terminal session. Plasma took minutes to load and stayed unresponsive the whole system basically dysfunctioning. The way to get it back was to manually turn off wifi while disconnected from the dock.

I tried various suggestions for scripts that would run at network connect to turn off wifi automatically, but I did not get a successful one.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have wifi off, wired LAN connected
2. Disconnect LAN, turn on wifi
3. Reconnect wired LAN without turning off wifi

OBSERVED RESULT

Whole system runs extremely slow, barely loads, can log into a console session but the $ prompt then never shows up, have to force shut-down machine

EXPECTED RESULT

Everything should work fine and wired LAN connect, either with wifi staying as well or turning off automatically

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Linux 6.5.0-25-lowlatency (64-bit), Wayland
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2

I have a Thinkpad T470p and am running the latest Neon User Edition.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

While on LAN:

```
$ nmcli
enp0s31f6: connected to Wired connection 1
        "Intel I219-LM"
        ethernet (e1000e), 8C:16:45:60:4B:59, hw, mtu 1500
        ip4 default
        inet4 192.168.0.42/24
        route4 192.168.0.0/24 metric 100
        route4 169.254.0.0/16 metric 1000
        route4 default via 192.168.0.1 metric 100
        inet6 fe80::f576:5dd7:c01c:56df/64
        route6 fe80::/64 metric 1024

wlp3s0: unavailable
        "Intel 8265 / 8275"
        wifi (iwlwifi), CC:2F:71:FE:86:5C, sw disabled, hw disabled, hw, mtu 1500

p2p-dev-wlp3s0: unavailable
        "p2p-dev-wlp3s0"
        wifi-p2p, sw disabled, hw disabled, hw
```