Audio desynced from videos

Issues & Assistance
1

This happened a couple days ago, I don't remember exactly when... but I started noticing audios from my videos are being desynced from their videos. And this happens EVERYWHERE, it's not X or Y program.

This happens on videos being watched on browsers or VLC, this happens on Telegram and even on lives I'm watching on Zoom.

Any directions on how to troubleshoot and solve this one, folks?

System:
  Kernel: 6.4.12-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=468e3250-834f-4678-85b1-f50f268e557d rw rootflags=subvol=@
    intel_pstate=passive quiet quiet rd.udev.log_priority=3
    vt.global_cursor_default=0
    resume=UUID=92d5bc58-440e-4eab-9f01-4fa35d34e02b loglevel=3 ibt=off
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.7 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
    dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: G5 5590 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0F3T2G v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: 1.22.0 date: 11/10/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 48.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 48.6/60.0 Wh (81.0%)
    volts: 17.0 min: 15.2 model: SMP DELL JJPFK87 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
    status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
    gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF4
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
    L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4467 high: 4500 min/max: 800/4500 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 4500 2: 4500 3: 4500
    4: 4500 5: 4500 6: 4500 7: 4500 8: 4311 9: 4301 10: 4500 11: 4500 12: 4500
    bogomips: 62399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
    RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: none off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Dell
    driver: nvidia v: 535.104.05 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 535.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-08) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
    process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
    link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f11 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 0c45:671f
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau
    alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 675x570mm (26.57x22.44")
    s-diag: 883mm (34.78")
  Monitor-1: DP-1-0 pos: primary,top res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 81
    size: 798x334mm (31.42x13.15") diag: 865mm (34.06") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-1-0 pos: bottom res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96
    size: 677x290mm (26.65x11.42") diag: 736mm (29") modes: N/A
  Monitor-3: eDP-1 size-res: N/A modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.6-arch1.4 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics
    630 (CFL GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
    link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Realtek USB Audio driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-4.5:7 chip-ID: 0bda:4014
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k6.4.12-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.78 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 3c:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:2502
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp60s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3d:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280 temp: 48.0 C
  IF: wlp61s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
    rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 6-1.2:3
    chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF: enp58s0u1u2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:9 chip-ID: 0cf3:e007
    class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
    lmp-v: 8 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c010c
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 626.28 GiB (53.5%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: PC SN520 NVMe WDC 256GB size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 20240012 temp: 57.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10SPZX-75Z10T3 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 4514 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 191.59 GiB (86.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 624 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 191.59 GiB (86.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 191.59 GiB (86.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 191.59 GiB (86.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.43 GiB used: 12.2 MiB (0.1%)
    priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 12
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 16.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C pch: 78.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 332 Uptime: 0m wakeups: 5 Memory: total: 16 GiB
  available: 15.43 GiB used: 3.9 GiB (25.3%) Init: systemd v: 254
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1973 libs: 495
  tools: gnome-software,octopi,pamac,paru,yay Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
  running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.29
2

hm... I'm thinking the problem may be deeper than just audo/video out of sync... I feel even the mouse is moving sluggishly... which is weird, I don't remember installing anything new or changing any configurations... Temperature, memory and CPU usage, everything seems okay...

3

I would start with the most obvious solutions first, try switching to lts kernel to rule out kernel bugs.

sudo pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers

reboot, select lts kernel from grub advanced menu.

If this is not a kernel bug then,
If you are using an audio sink like easy effects or jamesdsp try turning it off as well just in case that's the issue.

pkill easyeffects
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one day I'll remember to try lts first before coming here... but nope, zen's not at fault this time, I still have the same sync problem on lts.

pgrep easyeffects comes up empty, nothing like that is running. I don't remember using anything different audio-related...?

==edit

this is what Assistant shows installed...

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5

Just a quick sanity check can you make sure that your device's SATA controller is set to AHCI mode in your device's setup utility aka BIOS/UEFI menu. There have been a bunch of issues on forum related to that lately, although yours doesn't look similar to those issues at all it doesn't hurt to check.

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check, AHCI

7

Hmm could this be the pstate driver’s fault :thinking: remove this from your boot parameters and then boot into your system. See if it makes any difference. If it doesn’t you can revert back. Also check if

pacman -Qs jamesdsp

yields anything. It could be this package exists on your system without you knowing since it used to be a part of garuda’s default packages and was later removed due to being buggy.

8

I also thought about that when I was going through Garuda Assistant options, removed it and no difference.

no results, not installed.

9

I think I may be getting somewhere... step by step, looking around for "arch linux video audio sync problems" I found the Arch page for troubleshooting Pulseaudio. No dice, system's not using it.

Then I found this redditor saying they're having a similar trouble with pipewire. Looking here, seems to be the audio component that's installed.

Reading thru Arch's Pipewire wiki I installed qpwgraph. Start up a video on YT and...

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at the moment, seems to be working nicely. I don't notice any sync issues. One big evidence was when I start videos, they'd play a couple seconds "muted", then audio started up but from when the video had started. And when I paused, the audio would keep playing a bit, until it reached the moment I paused in the video.

Start another video on VLC... also seems fine for now. Nope, my mistake. When the video reaches a point I'm familiar with, something seems wrong to me. I pause the video... and it keeps playing the audio for a bit.

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Go back to YT and, surely enough, the same problem.

Thought I'd go back to basics... KDE's audio config.

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Why so many devices? O.o I should have... let me count: laptop's speakers, HDMI monitor, DisplayPort monitor, Echo Dot. 4 devices.

Let's mess around with these profiles.

Echo Dot's got two profiles

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SBC seems nice, SBC-XQ seems to take a bit to play "front left/right" audio tests... this could be it... :thinking: I usually hook up my laptop to my Echo Dot via Bluetooth, it's audio is way better than my monitors or the built-in laptop speakers.

It was set to SBC-XQ and lagging. Then on SBC it worked nicely. Then when I switch back to SBC-XQ it works nicely again, no lag. What the hell?

Then I go back to try and watch a YT video and... sync problem again on XQ. Ok, the problem is in this one. Now on to figuring out how to solve this.

Nope, not SBC-XQ problem, it happens on SBC too =(

But yeah, looks like I can narrow down the problem to bluetooth audio. On both HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, I get no audio delay problem.

Apparently this is an issue that was fixed 2 years ago..? O.o

gods, this is getting even weirder. So, HDMI and DP don't suffer from delay problems, but it suffers from something else: when I change sound volume on the system, the sound gets muted for a split second.

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I tried to edit, but reached the post body limit.

To be thorough: updated and rebooted.

inxi -Faz

System:
  Kernel: 6.4.12-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=468e3250-834f-4678-85b1-f50f268e557d rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet quiet rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    resume=UUID=92d5bc58-440e-4eab-9f01-4fa35d34e02b loglevel=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.7 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
    dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: G5 5590 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0F3T2G v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: 1.22.0 date: 11/10/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 45.4/60.0 Wh (75.6%)
    volts: 16.9 min: 15.2 model: SMP DELL JJPFK87 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
    status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
    gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF4
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
    L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4500 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
    8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 62399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
    RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: none off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Dell
    driver: nvidia v: 535.104.05 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 535.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-08) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
    process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
    link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f11 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 0c45:671f
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau
    alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 675x570mm (26.57x22.44")
    s-diag: 883mm (34.78")
  Monitor-1: DP-1-0 pos: primary,top res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 81
    size: 798x334mm (31.42x13.15") diag: 865mm (34.06") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-1-0 pos: bottom res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96
    size: 677x290mm (26.65x11.42") diag: 736mm (29") modes: N/A
  Monitor-3: eDP-1 size-res: N/A modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.6-arch1.4 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics
    630 (CFL GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
    link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Realtek USB Audio driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-4.5:7 chip-ID: 0bda:4014
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k6.4.12-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.79 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 3c:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:2502
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp60s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3d:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280 temp: 48.0 C
  IF: wlp61s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
    rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 6-1.2:3
    chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF: enp58s0u1u2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:9 chip-ID: 0cf3:e007
    class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
    lmp-v: 8 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c010c
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 612.82 GiB (52.4%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: PC SN520 NVMe WDC 256GB size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 20240012 temp: 60.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10SPZX-75Z10T3 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 4514 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 190.5 GiB (86.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 624 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 190.5 GiB (86.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 190.5 GiB (86.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 221.19 GiB size: 221.19 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 190.5 GiB (86.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.43 GiB used: 99.5 MiB (0.6%)
    priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 12
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 16.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C pch: 81.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 367 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 6 Memory: total: 16 GiB
  available: 15.43 GiB used: 5.49 GiB (35.6%) Init: systemd v: 254
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1900 libs: 481
  tools: gnome-software,octopi,pamac,paru,yay Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
  running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.29

From Garuda Assistant, Journal Errors:

set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS.
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 kernel: ACPI Error: No pointer back to namespace node in package (____ptrval____) (20230331/dsargs-301)
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 systemd-vconsole-setup[185]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with exit status 71.
set 01 23:00:13 johnny-g55590 systemd-vconsole-setup[356]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with exit status 71.
set 01 23:00:14 johnny-g55590 kernel: 
set 01 23:00:16 johnny-g55590 systemd-udevd[516]: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-qmk.rules:71 Unknown group 'plugdev', ignoring.
set 01 23:00:16 johnny-g55590 systemd-udevd[516]: /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules:2 Invalid key 'mode'.
set 01 23:00:16 johnny-g55590 systemd-udevd[516]: /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules:4 Invalid key 'mode'.
set 01 23:00:17 johnny-g55590 systemd-vconsole-setup[718]: /usr/bin/setfont failed with exit status 71.
set 01 23:00:19 johnny-g55590 kernel: nvidia-gpu 0000:01:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000
set 01 23:00:19 johnny-g55590 bluetoothd[836]: src/adapter.c:reset_adv_monitors_complete() Failed to reset Adv Monitors: Failed (0x03)
set 01 23:00:19 johnny-g55590 bluetoothd[836]: Failed to clear UUIDs: Failed (0x03)
set 01 23:00:19 johnny-g55590 bluetoothd[836]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)
set 01 23:00:19 johnny-g55590 bluetoothd[836]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)
set 01 23:00:19 johnny-g55590 bluetoothd[836]: Failed to add UUID: Failed (0x03)
set 01 23:00:20 johnny-g55590 kernel: nvidia-gpu 0000:01:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000
set 01 23:00:21 johnny-g55590 kernel: nvidia-gpu 0000:01:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000
set 01 23:00:21 johnny-g55590 kernel: ucsi_ccg 10-0008: i2c_transfer failed -110
set 01 23:00:21 johnny-g55590 kernel: ucsi_ccg 10-0008: ucsi_ccg_init failed - -110
set 01 23:00:25 johnny-g55590 systemd[3950]: Failed to start BTRFS Assistant Snapper check.
set 01 23:00:29 johnny-g55590 systemd-coredump[5046]: Process 4639 (packagekitd) of user 0 dumped core.
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 4639:
                                                      #0  0x00007f8b8ae8e83c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e83c)
                                                      #1  0x00007f8b8ae3e668 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e668)
                                                      #2  0x00007f8b8ae264b8 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x264b8)
                                                      #3  0x00007f8b8b61f0e4 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x1e0e4)
                                                      #4  0x00007f8b8b67fea0 g_assertion_message_expr (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x7eea0)
                                                      #5  0x0000564ae18577fe n/a (packagekitd + 0x277fe)
                                                      #6  0x00007f8b8b5c17e3 g_object_unref (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x227e3)
                                                      #7  0x00007f8b8b5de5d1 g_value_unset (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x3f5d1)
                                                      #8  0x00007f8b8b5d267f g_signal_emit_valist (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x3367f)
                                                      #9  0x00007f8b8b5d2d34 g_signal_emit (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x33d34)
                                                      #10 0x0000564ae1843fdc pk_transaction_set_state (packagekitd + 0x13fdc)
                                                      #11 0x0000564ae184c5c8 n/a (packagekitd + 0x1c5c8)
                                                      #12 0x00007f8b8b4ca538 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x101538)
                                                      #13 0x00007f8b8b65ba61 g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5aa61)
                                                      #14 0x00007f8b8b6b8c29 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb7c29)
                                                      #15 0x00007f8b8b65b01f g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5a01f)
                                                      #16 0x0000564ae183eb85 main (packagekitd + 0xeb85)
                                                      #17 0x00007f8b8ae27cd0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27cd0)
                                                      #18 0x00007f8b8ae27d8a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27d8a)
                                                      #19 0x0000564ae183ee25 _start (packagekitd + 0xee25)
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 4673:
                                                      #0  0x00007f8b8ae9a8bf n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9a8bf)
                                                      #1  0x00007f8b8ae9d353 free (libc.so.6 + 0x9d353)
                                                      #2  0x00007f8b8b6a88e1 g_variant_unref (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xa78e1)
                                                      #3  0x00007f8b8b6ab9f2 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xaa9f2)
                                                      #4  0x00007f8b8b6a8918 g_variant_unref (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xa7918)
                                                      #5  0x00007f8b8b6ab9f2 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xaa9f2)
                                                      #6  0x00007f8b8b6a8918 g_variant_unref (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xa7918)
                                                      #7  0x00007f8b8b6ab9f2 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xaa9f2)
                                                      #8  0x00007f8b8b6a8918 g_variant_unref (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xa7918)
                                                      #9  0x00007f8b8b4cfaa6 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x106aa6)
                                                      #10 0x00007f8b8b5c18b4 g_object_unref (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x228b4)
                                                      #11 0x00007f8b8b4d9587 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x110587)
                                                      #12 0x00007f8b8b4e263f n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11963f)
                                                      #13 0x00007f8b8b471644 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xa8644)
                                                      #14 0x00007f8b8b47167d n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0xa867d)
                                                      #15 0x00007f8b8b65ba61 g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5aa61)
                                                      #16 0x00007f8b8b6b8c29 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb7c29)
                                                      #17 0x00007f8b8b65b01f g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5a01f)
                                                      #18 0x00007f8b8b4d945c n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11045c)
                                                      #19 0x00007f8b8b68dcd5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8ccd5)
                                                      #20 0x00007f8b8ae8c9eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c9eb)
                                                      #21 0x00007f8b8af10dfc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x110dfc)
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 4661:
                                                      #0  0x00007f8b8af0ed6d syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x10ed6d)
                                                      #1  0x00007f8b8b6b0c07 g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xafc07)
                                                      #2  0x00007f8b8b626154 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x25154)
                                                      #3  0x00007f8b8b69025e n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8f25e)
                                                      #4  0x00007f8b8b68dcd5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8ccd5)
                                                      #5  0x00007f8b8ae8c9eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c9eb)
                                                      #6  0x00007f8b8af10dfc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x110dfc)
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 5044:
                                                      #0  0x00007f8b88dd7ec0 alpm_pkg_get_name (libalpm.so.13 + 0x17ec0)
                                                      #1  0x00007f8b8a9c52a6 n/a (libpk_backend_alpm.so + 0xf2a6)
                                                      #2  0x0000564ae185740e n/a (packagekitd + 0x2740e)
                                                      #3  0x00007f8b8b68dcd5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8ccd5)
                                                      #4  0x00007f8b8ae8c9eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c9eb)
                                                      #5  0x00007f8b8af10dfc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x110dfc)
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 4663:
                                                      #0  0x00007f8b8af0359f __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x10359f)
                                                      #1  0x00007f8b8b6b8b8f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb7b8f)
                                                      #2  0x00007f8b8b659112 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x58112)
                                                      #3  0x00007f8b8b659162 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x58162)
                                                      #4  0x00007f8b8b68dcd5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8ccd5)
                                                      #5  0x00007f8b8ae8c9eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c9eb)
                                                      #6  0x00007f8b8af10dfc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x110dfc)
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 4674:
                                                      #0  0x00007f8b8af0ed6d syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x10ed6d)
                                                      #1  0x00007f8b8b6b1493 g_cond_wait_until (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb0493)
                                                      #2  0x00007f8b8b626125 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x25125)
                                                      #3  0x00007f8b8b690d0b n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8fd0b)
                                                      #4  0x00007f8b8b68dcd5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8ccd5)
                                                      #5  0x00007f8b8ae8c9eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c9eb)
                                                      #6  0x00007f8b8af10dfc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x110dfc)
                                                      ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
set 01 23:00:34 johnny-g55590 bluetoothd[836]: src/profile.c:record_cb() Unable to get Hands-Free Voice gateway SDP record: Host is down
set 01 23:01:39 johnny-g55590 systemd-coredump[9439]: Process 5170 (packagekitd) of user 0 dumped core.
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 5170:
                                                      #0  0x00007f9b5688e83c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e83c)
                                                      #1  0x00007f9b5683e668 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e668)
                                                      #2  0x00007f9b568264b8 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x264b8)
                                                      #3  0x00007f9b570f90e4 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x1e0e4)
                                                      #4  0x00007f9b57159ea0 g_assertion_message_expr (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x7eea0)
                                                      #5  0x000055aaf58447fe n/a (packagekitd + 0x277fe)
                                                      #6  0x00007f9b5709b7e3 g_object_unref (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x227e3)
                                                      #7  0x00007f9b570b85d1 g_value_unset (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x3f5d1)
                                                      #8  0x00007f9b570ac67f g_signal_emit_valist (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x3367f)
                                                      #9  0x00007f9b570acd34 g_signal_emit (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x33d34)
                                                      #10 0x000055aaf5830fdc pk_transaction_set_state (packagekitd + 0x13fdc)
                                                      #11 0x000055aaf58395c8 n/a (packagekitd + 0x1c5c8)
                                                      #12 0x00007f9b56fa4538 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x101538)
                                                      #13 0x00007f9b57135a61 g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5aa61)
                                                      #14 0x00007f9b57192c29 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb7c29)
                                                      #15 0x00007f9b5713501f g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5a01f)
                                                      #16 0x000055aaf582bb85 main (packagekitd + 0xeb85)
                                                      #17 0x00007f9b56827cd0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27cd0)
                                                      #18 0x00007f9b56827d8a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27d8a)
                                                      #19 0x000055aaf582be25 _start (packagekitd + 0xee25)
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 5174:
                                                      #0  0x00007f9b5690359f __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x10359f)
                                                      #1  0x00007f9b57192b8f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb7b8f)
                                                      #2  0x00007f9b5713501f g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5a01f)
                                                      #3  0x00007f9b56fb345c n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x11045c)
                                                      #4  0x00007f9b57167cd5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8ccd5)
                                                      #5  0x00007f9b5688c9eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c9eb)
                                                      #6  0x00007f9b56910dfc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x110dfc)
                                                      
                                                      Stack trace of thread 9437:
                                                      #0  0x00007f9b56910ded n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x110ded)
                                                      #1  0x000055aaf76c7460 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                      ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

I'll research more and try new things tomorrow...

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Hey I am not sure but your journal seems to be full logs for coredump packagekitd looking around that’s the expected behavior for packagekit when pacman has paralleldownloads enabled.

Can you try removing packagekit from your system Or disabling parallelDownload option by placing a # in front of it’s line in pacman.conf.

If that alone does not help try to enable SGX in BIOS your system seems to be complaining about it

Also give us a longer journal output perhaps it contains some more information.

journalctl -r -n 500 | tb
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done, disabled parallelDownload, but I don’t see how those could affect audio/video sync?

done, although that was previously set as “software controlled” (the other options were disabled and enabled, changed it to enabled now).

what should tb do? my Garuda doesn’t recognize that command. But I can copy the output of journalctl

Couldn’t paste the result here, but this is straight up from reboot.

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Hmm could you instead remove packagekit? I have been looking around forum a little since last time and it looks like this package is known to cause issues for people and your journal logs is still filled with core dumps from packagekit.

It seems to be a known problematic package. There are quite a few more such threads even outside garuda on archforum where packagekit has been causing issues so I would suggest getting rid of it altogether.

tb is an alias for nc termbin.com 9999. So, basically that was supposed to upload your logs to the termbin right from command line. Basically the same as what you have done.

Core dumps happen when a program keeps crashing in the background and since it keeps crashing it also means it keeps re-spawning and using your system resources. See the linked thread above where this package kept spawning until it crashed system by over utilizing the ram.

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looking into how to do this.

hmmm I didn’t know about this one! nice =D

ah right, that makes sense. thanks once more!

I’ll look into how to remove packagekit and get back once I do.

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do a

pacman -Qs packagekit

and it should list the name of software you need to remove

sudo pacman -Rns <pkgName>

to remove it where <pkgName> is obtained from the previous step.

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done
https://termbin.com/qffh

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Do you still have audio video sync issues? I don't see any more coredumps in your logs. Go ahead and check.

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looks good now <3 thanks for the support!

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Sure, in case you face this issue again you can open a new post or if this thread is still open post here. :+1:

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