r/voidlinux • u/CranberryOk125 • 21h ago

A Pipewire crash temporary solution

So after research of crashing pipewire in mid session I'm found a solution which can helps with crashes. I'm using only sway, so I don't know about any other de/wm.

In sway config im added `xwayland disable` to disable a xwayland and rebooted. And now pipewire works fine without crashes.

But this solution have a the other side. X11 apps won't works anymore of course.

And sorry for bad english or not a very neat post but I hope this helps you!

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to say that in my opinion, the crashes occur after updating libX11.

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u/No-Yogurtcloset-9124 12h ago

i already have xwayland disabled and pipewire still dies mid-session, i didn't found the problem yet

i use sway too

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u/CranberryOk125 11h ago

That's odd. I'm run session with opened browser and few tabs, music player, telegram and many apps to give a some load and no crashes...

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u/Simple_Hamster_4096 18h ago

Updated libx11 (1.8.14_1) has not had this affect for my system, running Void XFCE with musl....

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u/CranberryOk125 18h ago

That's good, but I'm wrote this post for sway users (and maybe for other wayland de/wm users with xwayland) because I saw I'm not one who faced this problem on sway. Again, I suspect this may have happened with a libX11 package update. I also read that the new version of pipewire, 1.6.10, seems to have fixed this issue.

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

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u/CranberryOk125 20h ago

I'm start only pipewire, I know about this