On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 at 14:13:47 -0600, Andreas Kloeckner wrote:
gnome-shell currently crashes whenever a Bluetooth headset is connected.
(In my case, a Sony WH-1000XM3.) In the system log, messages along these lines can be found:
Jan 27 14:08:47 arc gnome-shell[3022]: Gvc:ERROR:../subprojects/gvc/gvc-mixer-stream.c:535:gvc_mixer_stream_get_port: code should not be reached
...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431525
In addition, it appears that a fix for this is available upstream, linked in
that tracker entry. It would be nice if this fix could be made available in
Debian.
To have all the information in one place and not rely on Fedora: this
is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnome-volume-control/-/merge_requests/31
which fixes
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnome-volume-control/-/issues/34.
I'm surprised that you're seeing this without using pipewire from
experimental - the upstream issue report implies that it's a
regression with newer pipewire? But your bug report seems to indicate
that you're using testing/unstable pipewire?
This is a bug in a "copylib" that is not packaged separately because
it has an unstable API/ABI (libgvc), so unfortunately it needs to be
fixed in multiple places.
For gnome-shell let's use the original bug #1126514.