Turning Bluetooth headset off crashes GNOME
Hi! I've found a very curious issue and I'd like to know whether anyone else can reproduce it too. I have a BT headset which has always worked and works flawlessly. However, since last week if I turn the headset off *while connected*, GNOME crashes and bounces the system back to the GDM login screen. This does *not* happen if I disconnect the headset first and then turn the device off. I have isolated a core dump after the crash: [1]. As there have been many updates to different system components in the last couple of days, I don't have a clear idea where the problem lies in. Any possible ideas or similar experiences might be helpful to understand the issue and, if identified, submit a bug report to the corresponding project. [1]: https://paste.sr.ht/~ariadna/0361313386b759307f83d670909b1877e43ce561 -- Ariadna Vigo https://ariadnavigo.xyz gpg 0xC948873069856D6D
On Thu, Jan 8, 2026, at 15:26, Ariadna Vigo wrote:
I have isolated a core dump after the crash
It may be helpful to pull the dump using coredumpctl [1], which should automatically try to pull debug symbols from debuginfod.
Any possible ideas or similar experiences might be helpful to understand the issue and, if identified, submit a bug report to the corresponding project.
Seems likely the same as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8948. Christopher [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_dump#Analyzing_a_core_dump
On Fri Jan 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM CET, Christopher Cooper wrote:
Seems likely the same as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8948.
Christopher
Thank you. Yes, reading through that thread and also the subsequent reports linked there, it appears to be a bug in wireplumber 0.5.13 in pipewire 1.5.84. It has been reported upstream[1]. There is a workaround available (apart from downgrading wireplumber to 0.5.12): $ wpctl settings bluetooth.autoswitch-to-headset-profile false However that messes things a bit up with autoswitching across devices and downgrading seems to require downgrading all of pipewire as well, so for the time being I'll be careful not to turn the headset off from hardware. [1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/5053 -- Ariadna Vigo https://ariadnavigo.xyz gpg 0xC948873069856D6D
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