Roon on a core Dell Optiplex 7060

[Chris_Snyder]

Dell Optiplex 7060 Intel i7 16 GB RAM
Linux Roon 5.11.0-41-generic #45~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 10 10:20:10 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have the machine connected via USB to a Schitt Modi DAC

Number of Tracks in Library

31821 Tracks in my library

Description of Issue

The system is very unstable. Sometimes it will stay up for 6 days, other times it will crash mid-song after only a few hours.
I reboot the machine every morning at 0200 via crontab because of the instability and in hopes that this will help. I continue to experience random crashes however.

[Chris_Snyder]

Bueller… ???

[BlackJack]

Do you run a desktop distribution? If yes then you are probably affected by:

Roon Appliance Core Dump?

Roon doesn’t get on nicely with NetworkManager which manages network devices and connections both on Ubuntu Desktop and Linux Mint. You have basically two options: If your Roon core runs on a headless Linux server, I would simply install Ubuntu server which doesn’t suffer from this problem. I have done so myself. The other option is to reconfigure your Linux so that it doesn’t use NetworkManager to manage network devices. Instead it can delegate to networkd which is default on Ubuntu Server. P…

[Chris_Snyder]

ok cool. I should have done that from the start.
Thanks for the input!