i have been recently having problems with pipewire. this seems to happen at random but some of first tells seems to be all youtube videos running will stop playing and go into loading no matter what video and even when wifi is fine, along with vlc no longer producing audio, and finally bluetooth headphones will no longer be able to connect. after reading how to restart pipewire i did so (here is the command i used systemctl --user restart pipewire-pulse wireplumber), everything seems to go back to normal with being able to connect with headphones and youtube videos playing but it seems the audio sound off then what it should as video volume and audio seems off and sounding tinny. this seems to fix it self after restarting but soon or later the problem happens again
well have a update after doing some fixes, i still do not know why it crashes though i have figured out a fix for the audio, i have to clear out the bluetooth profile stored and have to re-pair it then it seems to fix the audio
well another update, this fix does work though it seems to only be temporary as it will go back to being wrong or compressed(the compressed seems to be a result of the volume being messed up with it starting loud then going to extreme low which does not seem to be connected with the volume setting) after some time which can range from a hour to a few hours depending on use
here is the inxi -F report incase this helps
System:
Host: silver-hpz420workstation Kernel: 5.16.14-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64
bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.3 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z420 Workstation v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1589 v: 0.00 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Hewlett-Packard v: J61 v03.96 date: 10/29/2019
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Xeon E5-1650 0 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 1.5 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1519 min/max: 1200/3800 cores: 1: 1197 2: 3189 3: 1963
4: 1900 5: 1197 6: 1197 7: 1197 8: 1232 9: 1249 10: 1197 11: 1381 12: 1334
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 670] driver: nvidia v: 470.103.01
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.0 driver:
X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.103.01
Audio:
Device-1: Intel C600/X79 series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.14-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
IF: eno1 state: down mac: a0:48:1c:8b:c6:e9
Device-2: Realtek RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] type: USB driver: rtl88x2bu
IF: wlp0s26u1u3 state: up mac: 1c:bf:ce:8f:21:62
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: 52:54:00:aa:e0:3c
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel C600/X79 series SATA RAID Controller driver: ahci
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 5.49 TiB used: 4.81 TiB (87.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HUA723030ALA640 size: 2.73 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HUA723030ALA641 size: 2.73 TiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: HP model: x900w size: 28.91 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 2.67 TiB used: 2.28 TiB (85.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sdb1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17.12 GiB used: 4.81 GiB (28.1%)
dev: /dev/sdb3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 44 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 31%
Info:
Processes: 409 Uptime: 1d 20h 30m Memory: 15.55 GiB used: 11.89 GiB (76.4%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.15