Hi Fraser, Thank you for filing, isolating the root cause, and following up with your findings. By sharing your finding here, you have saved many others a lot of time and frustration.
Cheers, tony On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 08:02:06AM +1000, Fraser Wright wrote: > After discussions on the pipewire board we found this problem is > related to light-locker (part of lightdm?) changing > audio device permissions/ownership when the screen is locked. > I have changed to xscreensaver to avoid this problem and everything > runs normally. > I will report to the package maintainer of light-locker to see if this > config issue can be resolved. I am part of the audio group and would > expect a logged in session should continue with access even if the > screen is locked. > You can close this bug now. Thanks/Sorry! > Here is the discussion on pipewire: > [1]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/5002 > > References > > 1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/5002
