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devmrfitz

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Registered: 2021-01-13

Posts: 54

Pipewire screen sharing error

Since last few days, pipewire is unable to share screen.

$ journalctl --user -u pipewire
...
-- Boot 9ae4def5cdd94d9e8be15d753837f9ab --
Feb 28 09:03:55 c3po systemd[1221]: Started Multimedia Service.
Feb 28 09:03:55 c3po systemd-coredump[1783]: Process 1699 (pipewire-media-) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                             
                                             Stack trace of thread 1699:
                                             #0  0x00005609c9a0d03b n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0x2003b)
                                             #1  0x00005609c9a0ba6b n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0x1ea6b)
                                             #2  0x00007fdd5f3cfdf4 n/a (libpipewire-module-protocol-native.so + 0x16df4)
                                             #3  0x00007fdd5f3c9aa2 n/a (libpipewire-module-protocol-native.so + 0x10aa2)
                                             #4  0x00007fdd5f3c9ff8 n/a (libpipewire-module-protocol-native.so + 0x10ff8)
                                             #5  0x00007fdd604a8d9b n/a (libspa-support.so + 0x6d9b)
                                             #6  0x00007fdd6042a5ab pw_main_loop_run (libpipewire-0.3.so.0 + 0x425ab)
                                             #7  0x00005609c99f97dc n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0xc7dc)
                                             #8  0x00007fdd600edb25 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27b25)
                                             #9  0x00005609c99f9c5e n/a (pipewire-media-session + 0xcc5e)
                                             
                                             Stack trace of thread 1701:
                                             #0  0x00007fdd601c539e epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0xff39e)
                                             #1  0x00007fdd604b21f1 n/a (libspa-support.so + 0x101f1)
                                             #2  0x00007fdd604a8d04 n/a (libspa-support.so + 0x6d04)
                                             #3  0x00007fdd60410f50 n/a (libpipewire-0.3.so.0 + 0x28f50)
                                             #4  0x00007fdd6029c299 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x9299)
                                             #5  0x00007fdd601c5053 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0xff053)
Feb 28 09:06:59 c3po systemd[1221]: Stopping Multimedia Service...
Feb 28 09:06:59 c3po systemd[1221]: pipewire.service: Succeeded.
Feb 28 09:06:59 c3po systemd[1221]: Stopped Multimedia Service.
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LucidComplex

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Registered: 2014-08-21

Posts: 12

Re: Pipewire screen sharing error

I had this same problem. Installed `pipewire-git` instead and it worked. You may have to start the new `pipewire-media-session`  service with `systemctl --user start pipewire-media-session`.