Steps to reproduce:
After turning on my fedora-35 laptop, if I plugin my earphone, I am unable to any videos or audio files using media players (like vlc). Even youtube videos in browser become unplayable.
I am even unable to shutdown my laptop properly after this state. I have to hold down the powerbutton for some seconds and then force shut down my laptop.
This is the message shown when I’m trying to shutdown:
[8572.490451] watchdog: watchdog did not stop
[8582.591404] systemd-shutdown[1]: waiting for process vlc, alsactl, vlc, wireplumber, pipewire
And this just stays freezed for hours. This has been bugging me for some days now.
Thanks. But I’ve already tried this.
Returns this error:
Failed to connect to bus: $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not defined (consider using --machine=<user>@.host --user to connect to bus of other user)
but systemctl --user restart pipewire doesn’t work?
So the service is working. I guess we start by plugging in your headphones and then checking the status of pipewire again, and your logs to see what’s happening.
if it’s a crash, we’ll probably need to report a bug.
It appears to be fixed suddenly. Let me use my laptop for a bit. Perhaps the error will return again. I’ll post the log outputs once the bug reappears.
Hi, would you like also to check with systemctl --user status wireplumber. I believe wireplumber is the responsible to managing the clients (vlc, browser, and any media related apps) also for switching audio device sinks.