my workaroud is to use ShellEx with the comand “mpris-proxy” and now it works for me…
Haven’t experienced an issue like this on XA2. Not sure if it will help, but I might suggest using Unplayer instead of the included Music app (I honestly uninstalled Music because tracker-minerFS just adds any and every MP3 to it. Intermittent sound effects and audiobooks do not go well when trying to just listen to your library on shuffle).
Just curious of it, I started checking systemctl to see if this was being handled by an existing service, but nothing seems to show up in that regard. I also checked journalctl but saw nothing where mpris-proxy shows up. My XB700s simply show up as udev inputs.
mpris-proxy should show as running with command systemctl status --user mpris-proxy.
I briefly tried to look out for the service, but couldn’t find it. Now that I did…
● mpris-proxy.service - Bluez5-MPRIS Proxy
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Sun 2022-01-02 19:28:03 EET; 2 days ago
Process: 6329 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpris-proxy (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Main PID: 6329 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Well thay explains it!
Restarting it worked, which is nice 
Perhaps stopping Android App Support crashes it…? That’s the only odd thing I did two days ago…
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I’ve pinged the author of BTons and added it to the update needed list, https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/apps-that-havent-been-ported-to-aarch64
¯\(ツ)/¯
I fear it will only add to the confusion to resurrect it.
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Thanks! The author of BTons has alerted me to same My itchy trigger finger … chop, chop.
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Also, the service is marked as disabled… I guess some other process could start it, but I flipped it to enabled. Let’s see what happens in the next reboot
Nope, it didn’t help. I still have to restart the service every almost daily.
There is an ugly workaround however; see this post…
I’ve been checking to see to what extent this is hardware dependant and the service remains up and functional on the yolla/GS290 phones:
[defaultuser@VollaPhone ~]$ systemctl status --user mpris-proxy
● mpris-proxy.service - Bluez5-MPRIS Proxy
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-01-08 15:28:04 CET; 1 weeks 1 days ago
Main PID: 1945 (mpris-proxy)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-100000.slice/user@100000.service/mpris-proxy.service
└─1945 /usr/bin/mpris-proxy
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I lost mpris-proxy again this weekend, and the reason is quite obvious:
$ systemctl --user status mpris-proxy
● mpris-proxy.service - Bluez5-MPRIS Proxy
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/mpris-proxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Sat 2022-05-14 10:13:07 EEST; 2 days ago
Process: 5934 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mpris-proxy (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
Main PID: 5934 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
Well, I think I figured out the obvious workaround: systemd --user edit mpris-proxy
Put the following lines in the editor:
[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=10s
After that the service restarted itself (after having segfaulted two days ago) as expected! Now, this causes the service to always restart, even in the case of OOM, but I think with its 0.1% memory usage it’s small enough to fly under the radar
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Is this also present on 4.4?
Yes; the last two posts were about a X10II tunning 4.4.0.
Can you update the first post with that information?
I can’t edit the post anymore, it’s too old…
And, sadly, this is still reproducible on X10III with the 6GB of RAM it has. Browser, Firefox, Deezer, Email, Whisperfish have been killed in action so far, and keeping an eye of htop suggests that OOM is the cause…
I try to fiddle with swappiness and friends, perhaps it just needs more aggreasive memory management.
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Thanks for the report @direc85, and for digging deeper into the reasons. I’ve amended your original report with the new info (new title, 10III, 4.4.0) for clarity.
I’ve also created an internal bug report, so this is now tagged as “tracked”.
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Xperia 10 II with 4.4 installed from scratch doesn’t have this command.
@direc85 Do you know which package I need?
Whoops, that should be systemctl instead. Sorry about that!
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