I installed Fedora 34 WorkStation today on my Dell XPS 9550 (2016). I am using Sennheiser PC 8 USB headset that has a microphone. The headset speakers stop producing sound after some time whereas the microphone keeps working. If I log out and log in again, the headset speakers start working again. Even when the headset speakers stop working, the laptop speakers continue working. How can I avoid re-login? Is there a way to “refresh” the list of audio devices connected? Just plugging out and plugging the USB headset back does not work.
Can you please go through your system logs to see what errors you see?
Can you also please post the output of this command?
sudo fpaste --sysinfo --printonly
It may be a pipewire related issue. You should be able to restart pipewire without logging out using:
systemctl --user restart pipewire.service
Thank you very much for your prompt reply @ankursinha. I checked the logs. One suspicious thing that I found related to the headphones is
May 13 09:32:45 fedora pipewire-media-session[2504]: The decibel volume range for element 'Headphone' (-2837 dB - -6 dB) has negative maximum. Disabling the decibel range.
The output of the fpaste
command is shown below:
=== fpaste 0.4.1.1 System Information ===
* OS Release (lsb_release -ds):
"Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four)"
* Kernel (uname -r ; cat /proc/cmdline):
5.11.18-300.fc34.x86_64
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.11.18-300.fc34.x86_64 root=UUID=514b860b-178b-4c98-b68d-288079a39da3 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
* Desktop(s) Running (ps -eo comm= | grep -E '(gnome-session|startkde|startactive|xfce.?-session|fluxbox|blackbox|hackedbox|ratpoison|enlightenment|icewm-session|od-session|wmaker|wmx|openbox-lxde|openbox-gnome-session|openbox-kde-session|mwm|e16|fvwm|xmonad|sugar-session|mate-session|lxqt-session|cinnamon)' ):
gnome-session-b
gnome-session-c
gnome-session-b
* Desktop(s) Installed (ls -m /usr/share/xsessions/ | sed 's/\.desktop//g' ):
gnome-classic, gnome, gnome-xorg
* SELinux Status (sestatus):
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33
* SELinux Errors (selinuxenabled && journalctl --since yesterday |grep avc: | grep -Eo comm="[^ ]+" | sort |uniq -c |sort -rn):
697 comm="gmain"
42 comm="gsd-xsettings"
18 comm="gnome-shell"
14 comm="ibus-x11"
14 comm="gsd-wacom"
14 comm="gsd-power"
14 comm="gsd-media-keys"
14 comm="gsd-keyboard"
14 comm="gsd-color"
9 comm="gnome-session-c"
3 comm="gdb"
2 comm="pool-geoclue"
1 comm="gnome-initial-s"
1 comm="accounts-daemon"
* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c |
sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
8 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Hardware Virtualization Support (grep -Eq '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Load average (uptime):
09:40:59 up 1:03, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 0.90, 0.45
* Memory usage (free -m):
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 31923 1648 27485 539 2789 29325
Swap: 8191 0 8191
* Top 5 CPU hogs (ps axuScnh | awk '$2!=8866' | sort -rnk3 | head -5):
1000 2423 16.7 0.6 4583396 220012 ? Ssl 09:32 1:23 gnome-shell
1000 8368 14.2 1.1 3814068 390568 ? Sl 09:39 0:11 firefox
1000 2281 11.8 0.0 22800 14804 ? Ss 09:32 0:59 systemd
1000 8498 8.1 0.6 2873016 206920 ? Sl 09:39 0:06 Web Content
1000 2318 6.8 0.3 7268428 127248 tty2 Sl+ 09:32 0:34 Xorg
* Top 5 Memory hogs (ps axuScnh | sort -rnk4 | head -5):
1000 8368 14.2 1.1 3814068 390568 ? Sl 09:39 0:11 firefox
0 1536 0.3 1.1 1081720 361484 ? Ssl 08:37 0:14 packagekitd
1000 8568 5.4 0.7 2932296 242368 ? Sl 09:39 0:04 WebExtensions
1000 8498 8.1 0.6 2873016 206920 ? Sl 09:39 0:06 Web Content
1000 2423 16.7 0.6 4583464 220012 ? Ssl 09:32 1:23 gnome-shell
* Disk space usage (df):
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 16325792 0 16325792 0% /dev
tmpfs 16344996 0 16344996 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 6538000 2244 6535756 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p3 998540288 468399904 529634896 47% /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 998540288 468399904 529634896 47% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p2 999320 193724 736784 21% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1 613184 16468 596716 3% /boot/efi
tmpfs 16345000 48 16344952 1% /tmp
tmpfs 3268996 140 3268856 1% /run/user/1000
* Block devices (blkid):
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="7E0A-FE61" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="480869cb-1433-4d33-93e4-2cf82bd80882"
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="d28f971e-c4be-44d2-9037-c877155c1e16" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="5ed42a5e-9c65-4d4e-8213-156a0a59235b"
/dev/nvme0n1p3: LABEL="BTRFS_ROOT" UUID="514b860b-178b-4c98-b68d-288079a39da3" UUID_SUB="cffb1cf3-f9fe-44f5-81fb-3d8c7663b024" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="btrfs" PARTUUID="a488b6de-3a0f-4307-8857-b7a8900796ab"
/dev/zram0: LABEL="zram0" UUID="f356bcdb-2257-4891-a092-aa1a7e4c008c" TYPE="swap"
* PCI devices (lspci -nn):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:1910] (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) [8086:1901] (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:191b] (rev 06)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903] (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller [8086:a12f] (rev 31)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Thermal Subsystem [8086:a131] (rev 31)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:a160] (rev 31)
00:15.1 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Serial IO I2C Controller #1 [8086:a161] (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:a13a] (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation HM170/QM170 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] [8086:a103] (rev 31)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 [8086:a110] (rev f1)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #2 [8086:a111] (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #9 [8086:a118] (rev f1)
00:1d.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #13 [8086:a11c] (rev f1)
00:1d.6 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #15 [8086:a11e] (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller [8086:a14e] (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller [0580]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller [8086:a121] (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller [8086:a170] (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus [8086:a123] (rev 31)
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] [10de:139b] (rev a2)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC [14e4:43ba] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:525a] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM951/PM951 [144d:a802] (rev 01)
* USB devices (lsusb):
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0626 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB3.1 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:6410 Broadcom Corp. BCM20703A1 Bluetooth 4.1 + LE
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1395:0025 Sennheiser Communications Headset [PC 8]
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0c45:6713 Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
* DRM Information (journalctl -k -b | grep -o 'kernel:.*drm.*$' | cut -d ' ' -f 2- ):
Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.11.18-300.fc34.x86_64 root=UUID=514b860b-178b-4c98-b68d-288079a39da3 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.11.18-300.fc34.x86_64 root=UUID=514b860b-178b-4c98-b68d-288079a39da3 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
fb0: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin (v1.27)
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20201103 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device
[drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Reducing the compressed framebuffer size. This may lead to less power savings than a non-reduced-size. Try to increase stolen memory size if available in BIOS.
* Xorg modules (grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs):
* GL Support (glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL version|OpenGL renderer"):
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2)
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 21.0.3
* Xorg errors (without results: "grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d ':' -f 2- "):
N/A
* Kernel buffer tail (dmesg | tail):
[ 23.979680] rfkill: input handler disabled
[ 24.189364] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 24.189371] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 24.189438] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 99.524027] nf_conntrack: default automatic helper assignment has been turned off for security reasons and CT-based firewall rule not found. Use the iptables CT target to attach helpers instead.
[ 119.377172] logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:4054.0004: HID++ 4.5 device connected.
[ 482.172804] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_inetaddr_changed: fail to get arp ip table err:-52
[ 3331.352462] logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:4023.0003: HID++ 2.0 device connected.
[ 3333.587943] rfkill: input handler enabled
[ 3338.929733] rfkill: input handler disabled
* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.11.18-300.fc34 Thu May 13 08:37 still running
reboot system boot 5.11.18-300.fc34 Thu May 13 08:37 still running
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.11.18-300.fc34 Thu May 13 06:19 - 07:53 (01:33)
reboot system boot 5.11.18-300.fc34 Thu May 13 06:19 - 07:53 (01:33)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.11.18-300.fc34 Wed May 12 20:55 - 21:01 (00:06)
reboot system boot 5.11.18-300.fc34 Wed May 12 20:54 - 21:01 (00:06)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.11.18-300.fc34 Wed May 12 20:53 - 20:54 (00:00)
reboot system boot 5.11.18-300.fc34 Wed May 12 20:53 - 20:54 (00:01)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.11.18-300.fc34 Wed May 12 20:36 - 20:52 (00:16)
reboot system boot 5.11.18-300.fc34 Wed May 12 20:36 - 20:52 (00:16)
wtmp begins Wed May 12 12:15:47 2021
* DNF Repositories (dnf repolist):
repo id repo name
fedora Fedora 34 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64
google-chrome google-chrome
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver RPM Fusion for Fedora 34 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
updates Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates
* DNF Extras (dnf -C list extras):
Last metadata expiration check: 0:38:29 ago on Thu 13 May 2021 09:02:32 AM IST.
Extra Packages
kmod-nvidia-5.11.18-300.fc34.x86_64.x86_64 3:465.27-1.fc34 @@commandline
* Last 20 packages installed (rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature --last | head -20):
firefox-88.0.1-1.fc34.x86_64 Thu 13 May 2021 09:36:36 AM IST
perl-DateTime-Locale-1.32-1.fc34.noarch Thu 13 May 2021 09:36:34 AM IST
xen-licenses-4.14.2-1.fc34.x86_64 Thu 13 May 2021 09:36:32 AM IST
xen-libs-4.14.2-1.fc34.x86_64 Thu 13 May 2021 09:36:32 AM IST
kmod-nvidia-5.11.18-300.fc34.x86_64-465.27-1.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 05:53:59 PM IST
rclone-1.55.0-1.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:38:21 PM IST
powertop-2.13-3.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:34 PM IST
pandoc-2.9.2.1-9.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:34 PM IST
tlp-rdw-1.3.1-3.fc34.noarch Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:33 PM IST
tlp-1.3.1-3.fc34.noarch Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:33 PM IST
kernel-tools-libs-5.11.16-300.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:33 PM IST
kernel-tools-5.11.16-300.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:33 PM IST
hdparm-9.60-1.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:33 PM IST
util-linux-user-2.36.2-1.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:32 PM IST
spax-1.6-4.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:32 PM IST
redhat-lsb-submod-security-4.1-52.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:32 PM IST
redhat-lsb-core-4.1-52.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:32 PM IST
pandoc-common-2.9.2.1-9.fc34.noarch Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:32 PM IST
ncurses-compat-libs-6.2-4.20200222.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:32 PM IST
mailx-12.5-37.fc34.x86_64 Wed 12 May 2021 04:30:32 PM IST
* EFI boot manager output (efibootmgr -v):
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0002
Boot0000* debian HD(1,GPT,2932b307-e464-4ba3-8f60-3dea18870db8,0x800,0x11d800)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)
Boot0001* Linux Firmware Updater HD(1,GPT,2932b307-e464-4ba3-8f60-3dea18870db8,0x800,0x11d800)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)\.f.w.u.p.d.x.6.4...e.f.i...
Boot0002* Fedora HD(1,GPT,480869cb-1433-4d33-93e4-2cf82bd80882,0x800,0x12c000)/File(\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi)
Gathering system info .............................
I also suspected it to be a pipewire
issue but I did not realize that pipewire
has a daemon like pulseaudio
. On restarting the pipewire
service, the headphones start working again. It seems to be some kind of a bug but I don’t know what exactly it is or how to find it.
It could be a pipewire bug—it’s receiving frequent updates.
If you’d like, you can file an issue here to let the developers know:
It’ll be good to first check the list of current issues also to see if one for yours is already filed.
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