WebRTC crashes browser and/or the whole desktop

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Since the weekend where I installed the latest updates of Fedora 43 my browser crashes whenever I start a WebRTC call. It doesn’t matter if I use Chromium or Firefox or a Electron desktop app of the video conferencing solution. Also the video conferencing solution doesn’t make a difference. I tried Jitsi and Nextcloud Talk.

I tried already to downgrade the kernel from vmlinuz-6.18.6-200.fc43.x86_64 to the one I used before the last update /boot/vmlinuz-6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64 but no difference.

As I can’t match the issue to a specific component I don’t know where to open a bug report. Does someone else experience similar issues?

Edit: I might have been able to narrow it down a bit. Just now I could start the call and it only crashed after I connected the bluetooth headset. But this would point to the kernel, right. As I downgraded the kernel already to the version before my last updates something else seems to cause the issues. :confused:

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Can you get to text console using Ctrl-Alt-F3?
Can you ssh into the system from another computer?

If you can do the above then it may be only the desktop that is broken.
And you should have logs in the system and user journals to help understand what software is broken.

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After some more testing i could narrow it down to “enabling the bluetooth microphone” which lead me to this post: Fedora Crash back to login screen when using bluetooth headphones

I think this is the issue I’m facing. I will try the workaround tomorrow.

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