Description
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Is your issue present in the latest beta/pre-release?
This issue is present in the latest pre-release
Describe the Bug
Summary:
Sunshine hangs indefinitely when starting game streaming or pairing a device. After a lot of trial and error, I tracked down the issue to not having a notification daemon (e.g. dunst or builtin ones in KDE/GNOME) running.
Setup:
- A desktop environment which does not provide a notification manager by default (e.g. sway, hyprland)
- Don't have a notification manager running; normally this would be something like dunst but my setup didn't have any
When the issue happens:
- Start game streaming
- Try pairing a device
Symptom:
Hangs indefinitely and if you try to interact with it, sunshine crashes.
Potential Fix:
if I start a notification manager, things start working straight away. So maybe there should either be an explicit error message provided or the sending of the notification made a optional feature so it not being successful does not hang sunshine totally.
Expected Behavior
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Additional Context
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Host Operating System
Linux
Operating System Version
Linux arch-g14 6.15.4-arch2-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:35:07 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Architecture
amd64/x86_64
Sunshine commit or version
v2025.628.4510
Package
Linux - AppImage
GPU Type
AMD
GPU Model
Radeon 6800S
GPU Driver/Mesa Version
25.1.4
Capture Method
None
Config
Apps
Relevant log output
No logs, it will just hang