Bug 2322910 - No sound on Fedora Linux 41, 42 and 43 due to pulseaudio crashing
Summary: No sound on Fedora Linux 41, 42 and 43 due to pulseaudio crashing
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 43
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-10-31 08:55 UTC by Matthias
Modified: 2026-02-16 01:30 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc43
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2026-02-07 00:58:12 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
f5cacd94abcc47003bd88ad7ca1450de649ffb15.diff (3.59 KB, patch)
2024-10-31 08:57 UTC, Matthias
no flags Details | Diff
ed3d4f0837f670e5e5afb1afa5bcfc8ff05d3407.diff (1.23 KB, patch)
2024-10-31 08:58 UTC, Matthias
no flags Details | Diff

Description Matthias 2024-10-31 08:55:24 UTC
Pulseaudio 17.0.2 on Fedora Linux 41 crashes leaving the user w/o
sound.

Log from the journal:

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Assertion 'dev == data->device' failed at ../src/modules/alsa/alsa-ucm.c:1562, function pa_alsa_ucm_set_port(). Aborting
Process 2653 (pulseaudio) of user 1000 terminated abnormally without generating a coredump.
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Rebuilding like this:

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# dnf install  -y dnf-utils rpm-build rpmdevtools
# dnf builddep -y pulseaudio
$ dnf download --source pulseaudio
$ rpm -i pulseaudio-17.0-2.fc41.src.rpm
# Add patches and:
$ rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/pulseaudio.spec
---

resolved the bug when the following upstream commits were included:

- ed3d4f0837f670e5e5afb1afa5bcfc8ff05d3407
- f5cacd94abcc47003bd88ad7ca1450de649ffb15

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Matthias 2024-10-31 08:57:46 UTC
Created attachment 2054560 [details]
f5cacd94abcc47003bd88ad7ca1450de649ffb15.diff

Comment 2 Matthias 2024-10-31 08:58:22 UTC
Created attachment 2054561 [details]
ed3d4f0837f670e5e5afb1afa5bcfc8ff05d3407.diff

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2025-12-02 01:25:00 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 41 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 41 on 2025-12-15.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
'version' of '41'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, change the 'version' 
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Click the "Show advanced fields" button if you do not see it.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora Linux 41 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora Linux, you are encouraged to change the 'version' to a later version
prior to this bug being closed.

Comment 4 Samyak Jain (RedHat) 2025-12-16 17:19:59 UTC
Fedora Linux 41 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2025-12-15.

Fedora Linux 41 is no longer maintained, which means that it
will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we
are closing this bug.

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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 5 Matthias 2026-01-09 11:20:14 UTC
Bug is still present on Fedora Linux 43.

Comment 6 Moritz Bunkus 2026-01-24 20:17:10 UTC
Can confirm. This happens on my on my up-to-date Fedora 43, too. I tried switching back to Pulseaudio with "sudo dnf swap --allowerasing pipewire-pulseaudio pulseaudio", trying to investigate whether that helps with some of the audio problems I have while gaming (mostly popping noises).

Can additionally confirm that applying the upstream patches that were kindly provided fixes the crashes for me, too.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-02-03 17:29:03 UTC
FEDORA-2026-893932a0ac (pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-893932a0ac

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2026-02-03 17:29:05 UTC
FEDORA-2026-b3c5c7bf09 (pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b3c5c7bf09

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2026-02-04 02:13:37 UTC
FEDORA-2026-b3c5c7bf09 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-b3c5c7bf09`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b3c5c7bf09

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2026-02-04 02:50:26 UTC
FEDORA-2026-893932a0ac has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-893932a0ac`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-893932a0ac

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2026-02-07 00:58:12 UTC
FEDORA-2026-b3c5c7bf09 (pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2026-02-16 01:30:27 UTC
FEDORA-2026-893932a0ac (pulseaudio-17.0-9.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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