Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
Ever since the upgrade to 0.5.13 when trying to connect bluetooth headphones the gnome-shell crashes.

Journactl yields:
X Y gsd-media-keys[6466]: Gvc:ERROR:../subprojects/gvc/gvc-mixer-stream.c:535:gvc_mixer_stream_get_port: code should not be reached
X Y gsd-media-keys[6466]: Bail out! Gvc:ERROR:../subprojects/gvc/gvc-mixer-stream.c:535:gvc_mixer_stream_get_port: code should not be reached

Seems to be same/related to:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnome-volume-control/-/issues/34
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg2077712.html

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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Workaround is:
wpctl settings bluetooth.autoswitch-to-headset-profile false

from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnome-volume-control/-/issues/34

Hi,

What's the reason for this bug being downgraded from critical to important? I
think it qualifies as critical, as it leads to gnome crashing immediately,
possibly leading to data loss as any open documents, sessions, etc. are not
saved properly.


Cheers,

Bastian

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?
I performed a daily upgrade of my system (Debian Forky), when after
rebooting and logging in, gnome-shell crashed. Turning off my headphones
(Sony WH-1000XM4) fixed the issue, but subsequently when trying to
reconnect it, it would crash gnome-shell.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Ran `wpctl settings --save bluetooth.autoswitch-to-headset-profile false`

* What was the outcome of this action?
It stoped gnome-shell from crashing, even when reconnecting and between
boots.

According to upstream this should be fixed with gnome-control-center
49.4:

zmore /usr/share/doc/gnome-control-center/NEWS.gz
============
Version 49.4
============

- Various translation updates

Sound/Bluetooth
- Update libgvc to fix crashes with new pipewire


See also:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/2da4105d1a2c54e47939fbd1c8363560dee8c836

Control: clone 1124791 -1 -2
Control: reassign -1 gnome-shell
Control: fixed -1 49.3-2
Control: reassign -2 gnome-control-center
Control: fixed -2 49.4-1
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/2da4105d1a2c54e47939fbd1c8363560dee8c836

this only fixes gnome control center, not gnome-shell which ships its
own copy of libgvc or one of its library does). 
libgvc is copied into project source directory, it is not a dynamically
loaded library.

Every project including libgvc has to upgraded its copy.

I believe upstream (both GNOME and wireplumber) concluded this is a
libgvc bug. Thus this bug about gnome-shell should be reassigned to
gnome-shell (I could do that on my side if need be) and cloned to every
project in Debian including libgvc (that list I don't know so I cannot
do this clone).
These bugs should be kept opened until a fixed copy is including in
Debian.

For gnome control center we can already conclude that forky and sid are
fixed as they ship 49.4-1.

It seems gnome-shell is fixed in forky (49.3-2) and sid (49.3-3) as:
gnome-shell (49.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/patches/libgvc: Update libgvc to prevent crashes with newer
Pipewire.
    This updates it to 47c47a42 (2026-01-23) which is the latest
version,
    and the version currently used in gnome-shell's main branch.
    (Closes: #1126514)
  * d/watch: Convert to v5 format
  * Update Lintian overrides