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Bug 867769

Summary: gnome-base/gnome-shell Error starting screencast: Timeout was reached
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Albert <albert.nasyrov2016>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Albert 2022-08-31 20:35:55 UTC
Affected version
OS: Gentoo

Gnome shell 42.4

Mutter 42.4 compiled with screencast support

Gstreamer 1.20.3 with installed good and vpx plugins

Bug summary
Screencasts not working. After reboot or exiting from sleep, screencast starts for smh like 30 seconds and suddenly stops with error "("gnome-shell[2105]: Error starting screencast: Timeout was reached". In Videos appeares zero-byte file. After that, screencasts don't start anymore with error "gnome-shell[2105]: Error starting screencast"

Steps to reproduce
Reboot
Start screencast
Wait
Start it again
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-08-31 20:39:52 UTC
Is PipeWire running?

Please share emerge --info.