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Smoerrebroed

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-07-24

Posts: 115

wireplumber 0.5.13-1 crashes GNOME session

After the recent update to wireplumber 0.5.13, I can no longer use my bluetooth headset's microphone capability. Whenever an application (say, Chrome when I start a Meet or Zoom web meeting) tries to access the microphone, the GNOME session is immediately crashed and I'm thrown back to GDM. The same goes for when starting a huddle in Slack.

As a first aid, I reverted to wireplumber 0.5.12, and that seems to work fine. I haven't had any time to troubleshoot this in more depth, but did anybody experience the same issue? My setup is running latest GNOME (49) on wayland, so nothing fancy I'd say.

Smoerrebroed

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-07-24

Posts: 115

Re: wireplumber 0.5.13-1 crashes GNOME session

Looks like I'm not the only one: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/crash-w … date/77408

MacGyves

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Registered: 2016-02-05

Posts: 9

Re: wireplumber 0.5.13-1 crashes GNOME session

You're not alone indeed. I got the same issue. Thanks for the hint about the workaround!

rendering1561

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Registered: 2025-04-18

Posts: 2

Re: wireplumber 0.5.13-1 crashes GNOME session

I'm having the same issue. I installed the AUR `downgrade` package, then I used it to downgrade packages:
```
sudo downgrade wireplumber libwireplumber
```
and chose 0.5.12 for both. Hopefully this resolves it.

kevenalex

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Registered: 2026-01-12

Posts: 1

Re: wireplumber 0.5.13-1 crashes GNOME session

After the recent update to wireplumber 0.5.13, I can no longer use my bluetooth headset's microphone capability. Whenever an application (say, Chrome when I start a Meet or Zoom web meeting) tries to access the microphone, the GNOME session is immediately crashed and I'm thrown back to GDM. The same goes for when starting a huddle in Slack.

As a first aid, I reverted to wireplumber 0.5.12, and that seems to work fine. I haven't had any time to troubleshoot this in more depth, but did anybody experience the same issue? My setup is running latest GNOME (49) on wayland, so nothing fancy I'd say.

How did you revert your WirePlumber? I think I have a similar problem with my Bluetooth headset connection and related session crashes.

Smoerrebroed

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-07-24

Posts: 115

Re: wireplumber 0.5.13-1 crashes GNOME session

You can use the solution based on downgrade as explained in #4. However, normally you'll still have the older package version in

/var/cache/pacman/pkg/

, so you'll just need to do

$ pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/wireplumber-0.5.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libwireplumber-0.5.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Then - in order to prevent accidental updates and until this gets fixed upstream - add wireplumber and libwireplumber to the IgnorePkg element in

/etc/pacman.conf

.

BTW: The issue still persists.

Last edited by Smoerrebroed (2026-01-26 15:32:42)

artofakume

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Registered: 2024-06-21

Posts: 3

Re: wireplumber 0.5.13-1 crashes GNOME session

Since the issue still persists and I got quite tired of downgrading both packages after every upgrade, I added the to the pacman ignore list:

#/etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = wireplumber libwireplumber

.

This way both packages are ignored on upgrade. Maybe it helps someone knowing this.

Last edited by artofakume (2026-02-02 08:18:14)