[SOLVED] Sound doesn't work since wireplumber installation

Akas · 2022-07-02 12:56:43

Hi,
I updated my system yesterday and pipewire-media-session got replaced by wireplumber. Upon reboot, the sound does not work anymore.
I remember that I got a similar if not the same issue some time ago and reinstalling pipewire-media-session fixed the issue. However, this time, pacman cannot install pipewire-media session anymore due to dependency conflicts.
Since the issue with wireplumber is not completely unknown, I would expect that wireplumber would work now. Do I have to replace some config-files for wireplumber to work? I cannot remember reading such instructions during the update process.

Last edited by Akas (2022-07-02 17:55:32)

JoeyCorleone · 2022-07-02 13:53:18

You could try installing pipewire-pulse + rebooting your system afterwards which (I guess) should work out-of-the-box for many systems with no special sound setup/requirements.

pacman -S pipewire-pulse

Or wait a couple of days until things are sorted out again. With the new wireplumber push, there also seems to be a new influx of complaints.

Akas · 2022-07-02 13:59:44

pipewire-pulse is already installed on my system and the sound still does not work.
Waiting couple of days without sound on my daily driver is not very viable. Is there a possibility to reinstall pipewire-media-session which worked fine for me?

seth · 2022-07-02 14:13:35

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2043915

JoeyCorleone · 2022-07-02 14:23:41

There are several suggestions in the thread which seth pointed at.

Out of interest, before you start fixing, could you post the output of:

systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service
systemctl --user status wireplumber

Akas · 2022-07-02 14:41:47

seth wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2043915

Thanks. pipewire-alsa was not installed. After installation und reboot, the sound still did not work until I edited the pipewire.conf as stated three posts above. For some kind of reason, the pipewire.conf was located in /usr/share/pipewire instead of /etc/pipewire. I do not know if it is relevant for the solution.

JoeyCorleone wrote:

There are several suggestions in the thread which seth pointed at.
Out of interest, before you start fixing, could you post the output of:
systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service
systemctl --user status wireplumber

Sry, I started to fix it before I saw your post. The current output on the fixed system is:

systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; ve>
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-07-02 16:32:47 CEST; 1min 25s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
   Main PID: 1130 (pipewire-pulse)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 37153)
     Memory: 17.7M
        CPU: 134ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewi>
             └─1130 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Jul 02 16:32:47 archLaptop systemd[988]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Jul 02 16:32:47 archLaptop pipewire-pulse[1135]: 536870912

systemctl --user status wireplumber           
○ wireplumber.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit wireplumber.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)

Last edited by Akas (2022-07-02 14:42:20)

seth · 2022-07-02 14:49:11

For some kind of reason, the pipewire.conf was located in /usr/share/pipewire instead of /etc/pipewire

/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf will likely shadow /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf and since /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf is owned by the pipewire package, you should not edit it, as it'll likely get overridden w/ the next update.

Scimmia · 2022-07-02 14:49:13

Masking the service is NOT a solution

Akas · 2022-07-02 14:56:20

Scimmia wrote:

Masking the service is NOT a solution

iirc, I masked the service some time ago when the wireplumber issue first came up. I tried to run

sudo systemctl unmask wireplumber

However, I get the result

Unit wireplumber.service does not exist, proceeding anyway.

JoeyCorleone · 2022-07-02 15:16:58

systemctl --user unmask wireplumber

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[SOLVED] Sound doesn't work since wireplumber installation

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