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RT-AC1900P + Merlin SQUASHFS errors

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lakluster

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Recently switched over to a RT-AC1900P that I've had laying around. On stock asus firmware, I'd get a kernel panic once every 24 hours or so causing a hard reboot. Each time a random module seemed to be the problem. I eventually gave up trying to triage it and tried switching to merlin 384.8_2. I've had no stability issues while just running now. Changing some settings will cause wifi and all connectivity to drop (no ssh access) and I have to just yank the power out to reboot it, but just running it seems fine. That said I have noticed some errors in the log file which I'm worried about:

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Jan  7 02:45:37 kernel: SQUASHFS error: xz_dec_run error, data probably corrupt
Jan  7 02:45:37 kernel: SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x6bc908
Jan  7 02:45:37 kernel: SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [6bc908]

It has been more than a week since I've flashed the firmware (and I flashed / reset several times as I had originally borked it pretty hard when messing around with different firmwares). Most recently these occurred after around 3 days of uptime. From searching the general response is this is normal if you've just flashed, which in my case I have not. The other response was this may be a flash memory problem. I'm wondering if there is anything more specific I can run to determine if this is indeed a hardware problem? If this is a hardware problem and failure will be sooner rather than later, I'd rather just try and get my extended warranty to cover getting a replacement while I can. Any ideas?
 
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