kernel.sysrq = 244
…is enabeled and usually working (tested), but I had a complete stall.
I got my Bluetooth earbuds working normally with the new version of bluez by switching my audio server from pipewire to pulse.
sudo pacman -S manjaro-pulse jack2 pulseaudio-jack
Answer yes to replacement questions.
Remove the rest of the pipewire audio related packages, then reboot.
sudo pacman -R pipewire-audio pipewire-alsa gst-plugin-pipewire
Edit: It was working, then the sound started skipping on pulse. I decided to switch back to pipewire and give it another try. For now, my earbuds are working perfectly on pipewire. I am so confused. I’m glad they are working for the time being. I am not far from the laptop when the sound skips. I’m sitting right in front of the screen watching videos.
I’ve just noticed bluez seems to have had a package downgrade on the repos but I can’t find any notification about it here.
❯ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: bluez: local (5.87-2) is newer than extra (5.86-6.1)
warning: bluez-libs: local (5.87-2) is newer than extra (5.86-6.1)
warning: bluez-utils: local (5.87-2) is newer than extra (5.86-6.1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
❯ pacman -Qi bluez
Name : bluez
Version : 5.87-2
Description : Daemons for the bluetooth protocol stack
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.bluez.org/
Licenses : GPL-2.0-only
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : systemd-libs dbus glib2 alsa-lib glibc
Optional Deps : None
Required By : bluez-qt fwupd
Optional For : networkmanager
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 1770.23 KiB
Packager : Robin Candau <antiz@archlinux.org>
Build Date : 2026-07-04T20:54:16%:z
Install Date : 2026-07-09T22:26:02%:z
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature