#1008815 Unable to record screencast: "Error starting screencast"

Package:
gnome-shell
Source:
gnome-shell
Description:
graphical shell for the GNOME desktop
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2022-04-16 14:03:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1008815#3
Date:
2022-04-02 04:07:17 UTC
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When trying to record a screencast, I got the following non-specific
error in the logs:

gnome-shell[787]: Error starting screencast

And the screencast didn't start recording.
#1008815#8
Date:
2022-04-02 04:20:35 UTC
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Following up on this: the *first* time I try starting a screencast after
restarting GNOME, it appears to start, and shows a recording icon in the
top bar, but the resulting file is empty (0 bytes), and the log says:

"Error stopping screencast: Timeout was reached"

The second and subsequent times, I get the previously reported error,
and the screencast doesn't appear to even start, and no file gets
created at all.
#1008815#13
Date:
2022-04-16 11:04:15 UTC
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I could reproduce this in Fedora 36 using pipewire 0.3.49. I cannot
reproduce anymore since using pipewire 0.3.50.
#1008815#18
Date:
2022-04-16 12:04:22 UTC
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Is that the only thing that changed on your system? There was also a
recent fix in  xdg-desktop-portal 1.14.3.

Either way, Debian Unstable has both xdg-desktop-portal 1.14.3 and
pipewire 0.3.50 now.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha
#1008815#23
Date:
2022-04-16 13:55:26 UTC
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In my case, I did not change the xdg-desktop-portal version.