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faetter

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Registered: 2019-09-21

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

Background: https://archlinux.org/news/undone-repla … replumber/

So I updated Arch today and got a prompt to replace pipewire-media-session with wireplumber again, so I assumed the above had been sorted (no red flags here in the forums either, and this commit seemed deliberate: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … b8a3949ea9) and decided to go ahead with the switch.

Lo and behold, when I restarted... no audio and I couldn't immediately find a way to get it back, so I decided to downgrade the relevant pipewire packages (which is required because pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.53-2 lists wireplumber as a dependency, but not pipewire-media-session):

[2022-07-01T22:15:48+0100] [ALPM] downgraded pipewire (1:0.3.53-2 -> 1:0.3.52-2)
[2022-07-01T22:15:48+0100] [ALPM] downgraded lib32-pipewire (1:0.3.53-2 -> 1:0.3.52-2)
[2022-07-01T22:15:48+0100] [ALPM] downgraded pipewire-alsa (1:0.3.53-2 -> 1:0.3.52-2)

Replaced wireplumber with pipewire-media-session et voilà, my audio was back.

I'm more than happy to wait so this is more of an FYI rather than a request for help!

Last edited by faetter (2023-03-10 21:37:26)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,331

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

I know one of the ideas posted here when there was a problem last time was masking a service. Did you do that? That could cause problems now.

kola

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Registered: 2022-07-02

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

According to  https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/ … ia-session, adding pipewire.conf works.

torrenator

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Registered: 2020-11-08

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

I noticed this exact thing today. However it is still the old version that was removed earlier. Could this have been a mistake that wireplumber is pushed again?

arkapravoghosh1

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Registered: 2021-12-20

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

I solved this by doing this:

sudo systemctl --global mask wireplumber
sudo reboot now

That's it.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,277

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

[2022-07-01T22:15:48+0100] [ALPM] downgraded pipewire (1:0.3.53-2 -> 1:0.3.52-2)
[2022-07-01T22:15:48+0100] [ALPM] downgraded lib32-pipewire (1:0.3.53-2 -> 1:0.3.52-2)
[2022-07-01T22:15:48+0100] [ALPM] downgraded pipewire-alsa (1:0.3.53-2 -> 1:0.3.52-2)

Is pulseaudio still installed as well? pipewire-alsa without pipwire-pulse, but pulseaudio is a strange combination that was probably not tested.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,921

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

If you don't want the pipewire audio components but stay on pulseaudio you should remove all of pipewire-{alsa,pulse,jack} and switch to pipewire-media-session from wireplumber not break the screensharing usecases of pipewire.

faetter

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Registered: 2019-09-21

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys! I'll give this another go when I find some time.

@Scimmia: Nope, I upgraded after the announcement went up, so I never had to make any changes the first time around.

@progandy and @V1del: Nope, no pulseaudio.

(for my own future reference, other threads where this is now being discussed:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=277710
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=277707

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,921

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

Then you definitely want and should install pipewire-pulse at least in that case, or if you actually want plain ALSA you should get rid of pipwire-alsa as well.

Last edited by V1del (2022-07-02 23:57:04)

tigh

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Registered: 2022-07-03

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

Just commenting to say that I had this issue and installing `pipewire-pulse` sorted it, thanks.

Last edited by tigh (2022-07-03 18:12:20)

faetter

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Registered: 2019-09-21

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] No audio after pipewire upgrade

Hi all

Just wanted to close this thread by saying I finally came back to this problem and a simple system-wide upgrade fixed it this time.

In case someone else ends up on this thread, these are the package versions I had and the ones I upgraded to:

warning: lib32-pipewire: ignoring package upgrade (1:0.3.52-2 => 1:0.3.66-2)
warning: pipewire: ignoring package upgrade (1:0.3.52-2 => 1:0.3.66-2)
warning: pipewire-alsa: ignoring package upgrade (1:0.3.52-2 => 1:0.3.66-2)

Thanks for your help.

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