I am always happy to upgrade to the latest Fedora version, but this time it’s not a success. My audio is working the first minutes after a fresh start, but then crashes and no more audio input / output devices available.
Normally I would investigate a little and try to fix it, but this time I just don’t have the time for that… need to work on my projects and need the audio to work fine.
So I would like to go back to F34, but I can’t find the official download link for the iso. Can somebody help me with that? Downloaded an iso, but then mediawriter complains about it not being a good version… so I also don’t want to download a compromised one.
That’s unfortunate. It could be pipewire related then. Can you check that your system is up to date? pipewire and the related tools are under heavy development so stuff keeps being updated quite often.
If it is, you can probably just go back to pulseaudio and that should fix your audio for a start:
Before you do so, though, it’ll be good to see your logs about the crash, just so we can perhaps file a bug at least?
systemctl --user status pipewire wireplumber.service
should tell us what’s going on. It’s probably one of these crashing for some reason, and restarting them should get audio back (until the next crash :/)
Thank you so much for your help!! I really appreciate that.
I have run the command, and both services are actually active… so maybe it is not the audio subsystem that is crashing as I thought… but something else going on making both audio input and output devices unavailable (in audio settings there are non listed and in the upper right menu the audio volume bar is also gone)
Result of the command:
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service.d
└─00-uresourced.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-11-11 08:57:51 CET; 2h 14min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 1859 (pipewire)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 9079)
Memory: 6.1M
CPU: 144ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─1859 /usr/bin/pipewire
Nov 11 08:57:51 pc-124.home systemd[1576]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-11-11 08:57:51 CET; 2h 14min ago
Main PID: 1860 (wireplumber)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 9079)
Memory: 7.5M
CPU: 282ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wireplumber.service
└─1860 /usr/bin/wireplumber
It is a clean installation. Did it twice already, because I thought the issue might have occurred after installing some packages, but it isn’t. Clean installation causes it.
If you can look at your logs and see if there are any errors there we can see if the issue is known. if not, it’ll be good to file a bug so that the devs can fix it.
Does gnome-abrt or coredumpctl note the crash, for example?
Nope, they both have 0 reported crashes or errors.
I have no idea what the issue is, but I am more than happy with the provided solution by ankurinsha, so hopefully it can help other people with the same problem as well!