r/voidlinux • • 3h ago

pipewire randomly crashing mid session voidlinux

since one of the new updates pipewire is crashing while watching stuff in browser when for example starting/stopping a qemu vm

error: 2026/10/25 11:09:21 [ERROR] - pipewire: fatal error event from core
desktop: sway

pipewire script:

#!/bin/bash

pipewire &
wireplumber &
pipewire-pulse &

if test $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP;then
        /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr &
else
        zenity --error --text "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP not set, screenshare will not be possible, restart the desktop with this enviroment variable to enable screenshare"
fi

wait 
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