I gave up and reinstalled the operating system and it worked again. But if someone wants to continue from where I left off on this thread here’s the link…
This update went smoothly and I’m back in my KDE Plasma desktop session, but I did get a new P3 in the journal…
journalctl -b 0 -p 3 listed a new entry related to sd-pam “Failed to release session”, so I reran journalctl -b 0 --since '2024-09-02 22:16' to get a little more context:
Sep 02 22:16:08 AMD-Ryzen9-7940HS (sd-pam)[975]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session closed for user sddm
Sep 02 22:16:08 AMD-Ryzen9-7940HS (sd-pam)[975]: pam_systemd(systemd-user:session): Failed to release session: Caller does not belong to any known session.
Sep 02 22:16:08 AMD-Ryzen9-7940HS (sd-pam)[975]: pam_warn(systemd-user:setcred): function=[pam_sm_setcred] flags=0x8004 service=[systemd-user] terminal=[] user=[sddm] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>]
System appears to be up and running fine despite this new journal entry.
With this update on KDE with an nvidia GPU, I’m experiencing an issue where UI elements freeze. For instance, I can type my password at login, but the input won’t show any changes until I submit it; I can click items in the taskbar but the don’t show hovers until the click; kitty doesn’t show any changes until I unfocus and refocus the window. Really weird… Everything works fine when running on my Intel igpu, but it’s a bit stuttery since the triple buffering improvements are only available in Plasma 6.1.
Pipewire volume remains low and won’t go back up.
This has been happening since mid- or late July.
The sound volume remains very low.
I can point this out because the volume setting on the HDMI output monitor remains the same.
This does not happen with any Linux distribution other than manjaro. I’m multi-booting so I can compare. I mainly use manjaro and Cinnamon.
I was hoping it would be fixed eventually, but since no one has pointed it out for over a month, I decided to let you know just in case.
If it’s just a problem with my HW, there’s nothing I can do about it.
It’s not a fatal problem, but it’s been bothering me for a while.
Hi, I’m also using Cinnamon and have the same sound chip as you (Starship/Matisse HD Audio) but have no problem with it.
Comparing the results of inxi -Farz on my PC, I noticed that you have sndiod as server-1 and PipeWire as server-2, whereas I only have PipeWire as server-1.
So, unless you are using some MIDI instruments and really need the sniod server, you could perhaps remove the sndio package and see if it helps…
This often happens when the master vcolume is reduced. You can increase this with alsamixer. If alsamixer volumes are at 100% for all sound cards and the issue persists, some users had issues with sound depending on the kernel so test with an LTS kernel.
Smart status seems to be still good and healthy. No warnings and several tools like nvme-cli, smartctl and KDE-Partitionmanagers Smart-Status say it is “good”.
thanks.
I decided to try reverting to the settings from a year ago (startup program), and if that doesn’t work, I’ll try deleting it (sndio).
thanks.
The alsamixer setting was 100%.
When pipewire was unstable I used to run a startup program. I tried that and the problem went away. I took a break for a while.
About 2 years ago, around the time I removed Pulaseaudio and switched to Pipewire, I was having repeated issues with the sound disappearing, so I used this to work around the problem.