Bug 466952

Summary:	Opening a new tab in konsole causes pipewire-pulse to restart
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] pulseaudio-qt	Reporter:	Ed Tomlinson <edtoml>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ed Tomlinson 2023-03-06 17:00:23 UTC

SUMMARY

Open a new tab in konsole causes pipewire-pulse to stop and start. This either pauses or stops video playback from chrome etc.

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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start a video playing in Chromium/Brave etc
2. Open a new tab in konsole

I've also noticed this happening when mkinitcpio runs

OBSERVED RESULT

"journalctl --user -u pipewire-pulse -f" show pipewire pulseautio stopping, stopped and starting. The video will pause or stop playing.

-- Boot 42902a23cabe483cbb3349bb7d3a20b8 --
Mar 06 09:45:30 grover systemd[761]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 09:45:53 grover systemd[761]: Stopping PipeWire PulseAudio...
Mar 06 09:45:53 grover systemd[761]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 09:45:53 grover systemd[761]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 09:47:25 grover systemd[761]: Stopping PipeWire PulseAudio...
Mar 06 09:47:25 grover systemd[761]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 09:47:25 grover systemd[761]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 09:49:28 grover systemd[761]: Stopping PipeWire PulseAudio...
Mar 06 09:49:28 grover systemd[761]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 09:49:28 grover systemd[761]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 11:39:48 grover systemd[761]: Stopping PipeWire PulseAudio...
Mar 06 11:39:48 grover systemd[761]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 06 11:39:49 grover systemd[761]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio

EXPECTED RESULT

Audio should not be affected when opening a new konsole tab etc. pipewire-pulse should not stop.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
Linux/KDE Plasma: Up To Date Arch install (as of March 6th) with kernel 6.2.2
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 22.12.3
Qt Version: extra/qt5-wayland 5.15.8+kde+r60-1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I am using Wayland. Looking back in my logs it looks like this started happening after 5.27-1 was installed. I'd have selected kpipewire as the component if it was selectable... There have been reports on pipewire git issues: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3070

Comment 1 Ed Tomlinson 2023-03-20 16:45:22 UTC

This was a problem at my end.  Please close.