Fedora 34 USB headset speaker stops working after some time

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.

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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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