YouTube/YouTube Music intermittently not loading any videos

Nick3111 · 2024-12-10 19:35:10

Hello. I have been using arch with plasma for a few months now but reinstalled both my desktop and my laptop on sunday and since then, youtube services intermittently hang on loading infinitely. This issue is present on both devices though not necessarily at the same time. The website is midly slower but otherwise all functions such as search work. I can load videos through mpv during this. No other websites or services are affected in any way by this issue and no other devices on the same network exhibit this behavior. The 'stats for nerds' option in youtube shows zero network traffic going on during these moments.
I tried Firefox, Chromium and Tor, all of which exhibited the same behavior. I tried disabling uBlock Origin on FF, I tried disabling hardware acceleration, switching the DNS both on router and just on the desktop. I saw post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=276918 where ```pacman -Syu pipewire-media-session``` supposedly fixed the rather similar issue for the user, not so for me. Could somebody point me towards what I am missing to fix this? Thanks in advance

Last edited by Nick3111 (2024-12-10 19:46:01)

seth · 2024-12-10 23:12:00

Do not install/use PWMS, but wireplumber.
If the issue remains, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePl … t_settings and try again.

Sanity check
Please post the output of

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

Nick3111 · 2024-12-12 08:08:23

I believe I was using WP initially and just tried PWMS, immediately switching back since that didn't fix the issue, unless I just entirely forgot what I was doing. As for the issue - since the initial post, I do not think I ran into it again. Output is:

cups.path                                | multi-user.target.wants
cups.service                             | multi-user.target.wants
cups.service                             | printer.target.wants
cups.socket                              | sockets.target.wants
dbus-org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.service | system
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service | system
dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service    | system
display-manager.service                  | system
firewalld.service                        | multi-user.target.wants
getty@tty1.service                       | getty.target.wants
NetworkManager.service                   | multi-user.target.wants
NetworkManager-wait-online.service       | network-online.target.wants
p11-kit-server.socket                    | sockets.target.wants
pipewire-session-manager.service         | user
pipewire.socket                          | sockets.target.wants
pulseaudio.socket                        | sockets.target.wants
remote-fs.target                         | multi-user.target.wants
systemd-resolved.service                 | sysinit.target.wants
systemd-userdbd.socket                   | sockets.target.wants
wireplumber.service                      | pipewire.service.wants
xdg-user-dirs-update.service             | default.target.wants

Last edited by Nick3111 (2024-12-12 08:11:17)

seth · 2024-12-12 10:29:13

Replace pulseaudio w/ pipewire-pulse - what is "pipewire-session-manager.service"? Sound like PWMS related. Disable that too?

V1del · 2024-12-12 19:49:42

pipewire-session-manager is normal, it's an alias for both PWMS and wireplumber so only one of them is enabled and units can depend on it if they are agnostic to the actual session manager.

I'd also say the pulseaudio wireplumber clash is the more likely suspect here.

Last edited by V1del (2024-12-12 19:51:06)

Nick3111 · 2024-12-18 09:30:39

Hey there! Thanks for the replies lads. <s>Like I mentioned, the issue seemed to have resolved itself. Yesterday, I figured I might as well switch to pipewire-pulse, as recommended, anyway. On the laptop this caused no problems, however the issue is back on the desktop.</s>

Update: this now seems to be a firefox issue anymore, since playback seems to be working in chromium (though all of my audio devices have no disappeared)

Last edited by Nick3111 (2024-12-18 09:42:51)

V1del · 2024-12-18 09:46:04

All of that sounds weird, what output do you get in [code][/code] code tags for

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
pactl list sinks
pactl list sink-inputs

while things aren't working in firefox?

Nick3111 · 2024-12-18 10:01:06

I'll remember to run this when/if this happens again. I managed to restore my audio devices (wireplumber was failing to start for some reason) and the thing is now working again. Honestly at this point it sounds like I am doing something to cause this but I really don't see what that would be given the issue started between yesterday and this morning and the only thing I did between that was shut the PC down.

Last edited by Nick3111 (2024-12-18 10:03:31)

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YouTube/YouTube Music intermittently not loading any videos

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