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Maerman99

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Registered: 2021-05-20

Posts: 2

No sound after recent update

So, as the title says, I recently did an update and my sound disappeared. Pavucontrol shows no devices of any kind, and no audio source provides any output. I use a 3.5mm audio jack to connect to my speakers, but I have also tried connecting to them via bluetooth, to no avail.

I use pipewire, and I used the new install script to get Arch on my system.

Any thoughts?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,334

Re: No sound after recent update

Check your pacnews for pipewire, it often has backwards incompatible config changes and depending on when you installed pipewire initially those might've just recently been added to the backup array of the package

If that's not it, does your journal say something useful?

systemctl --user status pipewire pipewire-media-session
aplay -l
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

Last edited by V1del (2021-05-20 06:50:53)

Maerman99

Member

Registered: 2021-05-20

Posts: 2

Re: No sound after recent update

Check your pacnews for pipewire, it often has backwards incompatible config changes and depending on when you installed pipewire initially those might've just recently been added to the backup array of the package

If that's not it, does your journal say something useful?

systemctl --user status pipewire pipewire-media-session
aplay -l
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

Okay, my only pacnew is mirrorlist.pacnew.

systemctl --user status pipewire pipewire-media-session gives me the following output:

× pipewire.service - Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-05-20 12:25:18 KST; 9h ago
TriggeredBy: × pipewire.socket
    Process: 865 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Main PID: 865 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
        CPU: 7ms

May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Stopped Multimedia Service.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Failed to start Multimedia Service.

○ pipewire-media-session.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-media-session.service; enabled; vendor preset: enable>
     Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2021-05-20 12:25:18 KST; 9h ago
    Process: 866 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 866 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 12ms

May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager.
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: could not set nice-level to -11: Permission denied
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Stopping Multimedia Service Session Manager...
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: could not make thread realtime: Permission denied
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire-media-session.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Stopped Multimedia Service Session Manager.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Dependency failed for Multimedia Service Session Manager.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire-media-session.service: Job pipewire-media-session.service/sta>
lines 1-31/31 (END)...skipping...
× pipewire.service - Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-05-20 12:25:18 KST; 9h ago
TriggeredBy: × pipewire.socket
    Process: 865 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Main PID: 865 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
        CPU: 7ms

May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Stopped Multimedia Service.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Failed to start Multimedia Service.

○ pipewire-media-session.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-media-session.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2021-05-20 12:25:18 KST; 9h ago
    Process: 866 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 866 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 12ms

May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager.
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: could not set nice-level to -11: Permission denied
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Stopping Multimedia Service Session Manager...
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied
May 20 12:25:18 arch pipewire-media-session[866]: could not make thread realtime: Permission denied
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire-media-session.service: Deactivated successfully.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Stopped Multimedia Service Session Manager.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: Dependency failed for Multimedia Service Session Manager.
May 20 12:25:18 arch systemd[573]: pipewire-media-session.service: Job pipewire-media-session.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

There are a few errors there, so I'm not sure what exactly the issue is. I'll start searching on the web for the different errors and let you know if I stumble upon something.