Fedora 43 Gnome Crash Connecting Bluetooth Headphones [Solved]

OS: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) x86_64

Host: Laptop 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) (A6)

Kernel: Linux 6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64

DE: GNOME 49.2

WM: Mutter (Wayland)

CPU: Intel(R) Core™ Ultra 7 165H (22) @ 5.00 GHz

Hey guys, I just wanted to post a fix in case anyone has this issue.

I updated my Fedora install yesterday and started having issues with my Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones. Whenever I connected my headphones, it would crash Gnome Desktop and log me out.

I was able to trace to issue to wireplumber and fixed the issue by switching to pipewire.

sudo dnf swap wireplumber pipewire-media-session

I was on wireplumber 5.13, so maybe later versions will fix the issue.

Everything seems stable now that I ran that command.

Here’s the article I found:

Hope this helps someone with issues.

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Was having this same issue and your solution worked perfect, thank you!

Such a weird behavior lol.

@Josh_Voyles same issue here with Jabra headphone, thanks for sharing your solution !
Have a good one

I was having the same issue with my Nothing Ear(2), thank you so much for the fix!

I’m glad it’s helping a few out!

Looks like the bug has also been reported. You can track the status here:

I’ll probably switch back one a fix is out.

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thanks for sharing this resolution. I will try this as well.

other option:
I have the same issue. I rollback to version 0.5.11 using this command
$ sudo dnf downgrade wireplumber

and then version lock wireplumber using these:
$ sudo dnf versionlock add ‘wireplumber-0.5.11*’
$ sudo dnf versionlock add ‘libwireplumber-0.5.11*’

It looks like a fix has been merged. So, I’m sure we’ll see it in our Fedora repo soon.