I still have this problem... And I tried whatever was said in comments here. what I found by journalctl:
Apr 29 14:45:27 blacklighter dbus-daemon[2158]: [session uid=1000 pid=2158] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' Apr 29 14:45:27 blacklighter gjs[3471]: JS LOG: Failed to create pipeline: Gst.ParseError: no element "pipewiresrc" Apr 29 14:45:27 blacklighter gnome-shell[2406]: Error starting screencast Apr 29 14:45:27 blacklighter snap-store[2694]: automatically prevented from changing kind on system/snap/*/runtime/io.snapcraft.core18-CSO04Jhav2yK0uz97cr0ipQRyqg0qQL6/latest/stable from runtime to unknown! Apr 29 14:45:28 blacklighter gnome-shell[2406]: D-Bus client with active sessions vanished Apr 29 14:45:29 blacklighter systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully. Apr 29 14:45:29 blacklighter systemd[1]: systemd-localed.service: Deactivated successfully. Apr 29 14:45:33 blacklighter dbus-daemon[2158]: [session uid=1000 pid=2158] Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' requested by ':1.43' (uid=1000 pid=2406 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell " label="unconfined") Apr 29 14:45:33 blacklighter dbus-daemon[2158]: [session uid=1000 pid=2158] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' Apr 29 14:45:33 blacklighter gjs[3512]: JS LOG: Failed to create pipeline: Gst.ParseError: no element "pipewiresrc" Apr 29 14:45:33 blacklighter gnome-shell[2406]: Error starting screencast Apr 29 14:45:35 blacklighter gnome-shell[2406]: D-Bus client with active sessions vanished Apr 29 14:45:36 blacklighter zeitgeist-datah[3399]: zeitgeist-datahub.vala:210: Error during inserting events: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.zeitgeist.EngineError.InvalidArgument: Incomplete event: interpretation, manifestation and actor are required -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1963264 Title: Gnome screen recorder doesn't work on dist-upgraded jammy systems Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R, screencast indicator appears in the indicator menu but disappears in about 2 seconds. No file is even created under the Videos folder. journalctl shows: Mar 02 09:10:29 Development dbus-daemon[2962]: [session uid=1000 pid=2962] Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' requested by ':1.62' (uid=1000 pid=3311 comm="/usr/libexec/gsd-media-> Mar 02 09:10:29 Development dbus-daemon[2962]: [session uid=1000 pid=2962] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' Mar 02 09:10:31 Development dbus-daemon[2962]: [session uid=1000 pid=2962] Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' requested by ':1.62' (uid=1000 pid=3311 comm="/usr/libexec/gsd-media-> Mar 02 09:10:31 Development dbus-daemon[2962]: [session uid=1000 pid=2962] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.Screencast' Mar 02 09:10:32 Development gjs[5825]: JS LOG: Failed to create pipeline: Gst.ParseError: no element "pipewiresrc" The issue is the Gst.ParseError. Before upgrading to jammy (22.04), it used to work fine. Also, when testing under qemu/KVM it works properly. It just doesn't work when running directly on the PC. What other logs can I provide? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: gnome-shell 41.3-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-18.18-generic 5.15.12 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu78 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Mar 3 15:41:44 2022 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-12 (660 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 41.3-3ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-02-27 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1963264/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

