Bug#1115311: wsjtx: Freezes hours later when left receiving (FT8 and Whisper)
Hi Fraser,
Thank you for filing, isolating the root cause, and following up with
your findings. By sharing your finding here, you have saved many others
a lot of time and frustration.
Cheers,
tony
On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 08:02:06AM +1000, Fraser Wright wrote:
> After discussions on the pipewire board we found this problem is
> related to light-locker (part of lightdm?) changing
> audio device permissions/ownership when the screen is locked.
> I have changed to xscreensaver to avoid this problem and everything
> runs normally.
> I will report to the package maintainer of light-locker to see if this
> config issue can be resolved. I am part of the audio group and would
> expect a logged in session should continue with access even if the
> screen is locked.
> You can close this bug now. Thanks/Sorry!
> Here is the discussion on pipewire:
> [1]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/5002
>
> References
>
> 1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/5002
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