I don't know if this is the right place to file this or if this is even a (gstreamer) bug. Strawberry suddenly stopped playing my web-radio channels with some gstreamer-error. This could be reproduced in a terminal (inside a wayland plasma session). Yet this WORKS outside of KDE (e. g. in framebuffer console). So I narrowed it down to the environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP. If the value of this variable is "KDE" the stream will not be played. For any other string (including e. g. lowercase "kde") gst-play-1.0 works as expected. I. e. : > XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="" gst-play-1.0 actually works as expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LANG="C" gst-play-1.0 https://wdr-wdr5-live.icecastssl.wdr.de/wdr/wdr5/live/mp3/128/stream.mp3 Actual Results: Press 'k' to see a list of keyboard shortcuts. Now playing https://wdr-wdr5-live.icecastssl.wdr.de/wdr/wdr5/live/mp3/128/stream.mp3 Prerolling... (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_uri_get_scheme: assertion 'uri != NULL' failed (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_uri_get_scheme: assertion 'uri != NULL' failed (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_str_has_prefix: assertion 'str != NULL' failed (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_uri_get_scheme: assertion 'uri != NULL' failed (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_str_has_prefix: assertion 'str != NULL' failed (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_uri_get_scheme: assertion 'uri != NULL' failed (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_str_has_prefix: assertion 'str != NULL' failed (gst-play-1.0:6922): GLib-CRITICAL **: 18:38:08.905: g_uri_to_string: assertion 'uri != NULL' failed ERROR Internal data stream error. for https://wdr-wdr5-live.icecastssl.wdr.de/wdr/wdr5/live/mp3/128/stream.mp3 ERROR debug information: ../gstreamer-1.22.3/libs/gst/base/gstbasesrc.c(3132): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstPlayBin:playbin/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstSoupHTTPSrc:source: streaming stopped, reason error (-5) Reached end of play list. Expected Results: Web radio is playing Portage 3.0.49 (python 3.11.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma, gcc-12, glibc-2.37-r3, 6.1.38-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-6.1.38-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-7700K_CPU_@_4.20GHz-with-glibc2.37 KiB Mem: 32837660 total, 18235008 free KiB Swap: 6293500 total, 6293500 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:46:51 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 93098f8b20d37a7fd96890917c0069bf9c899348 Timestamp of repository guru: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:01:52 +0000 Head commit of repository guru: fa128d00dd5d111b263f6a2f6adf07f6d797f653 Timestamp of repository robert7k: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:16:46 +0000 Head commit of repository robert7k: b416afd3e716c7bf1713f6f1d016dc041672027a sh bash 5.1_p16-r6 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.40 p5) 2.40.0 distcc 3.4 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.5::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16-r6::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1-r1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.36.1-r3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.10.12::gentoo, 3.11.4::gentoo dev-lang/rust-bin: 1.69.0-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.26.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/meson: 1.1.1::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.13-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.47.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.37::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.71-r6::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.5-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.40-r5::gentoo sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5::gentoo sys-devel/clang: 16.0.6::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 12.3.1_p20230526::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.11::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.7-r1::gentoo sys-devel/lld: 16.0.6::gentoo sys-devel/llvm: 16.0.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 6.1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.37-r3::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git priority: -1000 volatile: True guru location: /var/db/repos/guru sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/guru.git masters: gentoo volatile: False robert location: /var/db/repos/robert masters: gentoo volatile: False robert7k location: /var/db/repos/robert7k sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/robert7k.git masters: gentoo volatile: False Binary Repositories: gentoo-binpkg priority: 9999 sync-uri: https://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/amd64/binpkg/default/linux/17.1/x86-64 Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE @FSF-APPROVED intel-ucode" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-flto=8 -march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-flto=8 -march=native -O2 -pipe" 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After deleting all my KDE related configuration files and directorys in .local/share and .config after carefully separating these from non-KDE related files, I generated a new KDE-profile for my user. Now the problem is gone. I don't know what caused it, probably never will, and its relationship to the environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP but I mark this as resolved. I guess it's a singular problem somewhere in my configuration files.