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xTrayambak

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Registered: 2022-10-08

Posts: 4

PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

Hello everyone, I am Tray. I have recently picked up Arch Linux. I managed to install it on the first try using the installation guide and I booted into my i3wm desktop. I have been using it for a few days until today, when my laptop ran out of battery and it force-shutdown. When I rebooted it, it worked fine -- I booted back into my desktop. However, as soon as I tried some audio playback, I could not get any output! A quick check on pulseaudio shows that the daemon was running. Killing and restarting it helped to no extent. I tried to use alsamixer to see if my volume was set to 0, but it was at 100%. I am using builtin speakers and earphones for this laptop and when I ran pavucontrol, it showed me that my speakers were unavailable by tagging them like "Speakers (unavailable)" but my earphones, tagged like "Headphones" were just fine.

I have `alsa`, `alsa-utils`, `pulseaudio`, `pipewire` and `wireplumber` installed. Can it be that `pipewire/wireplumber` and `pulseaudio` are conflicting?

Thank you.

xTrayambak

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Registered: 2022-10-08

Posts: 4

Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

Also, when I try to run `espeak` to check if my audio works, it outputs this instead.
```
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:999:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
error: No such file or directory
```

xTrayambak

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Registered: 2022-10-08

Posts: 4

Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

And here is what `lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio` tells me.
```
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device [1002:15b3]
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3813]
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
--
00:09.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Carrizo Audio Dummy Host Bridge [1022:157d]
00:09.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 60h-6fh) Audio Controller [1022:157a]
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3818]
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
```

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

xTrayambak, welcome to the forum. Please stop multiposting. If you are the last person to post in a thread, and you have something to add, please use the edit button to amend the last post.

In addition, this forum does not support markdown. Please edit your posts and use [ code ] tags (not quote tags) when posting output. This makes the output easier to read and provides a scroll box for long output.

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Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

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Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

Did wireplumber update to V 0.4.12-1? If so, try downgrading it 0.4.11-4.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

wireplumber and pulseaudio will definitely conflict unless you configure wireplumber to disable audio integration, either do that or switch to pipewire-media-session

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

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Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

or switch to pipewire-media-session

Exactly what I did - and fixed both audio and video problems for me.

Last edited by Roken (2022-10-08 20:50:53)

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xTrayambak

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Registered: 2022-10-08

Posts: 4

Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

@Roken -- downgrading doesn't seem to help.
@2ManyDogs -- sorry for that; I forgot to comply by the rules, won't do that again xD
@V1del -- nope, that doesn't seem to help either.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,206

Re: PulseAudio playback suddenly stopped without updating any packages

Then post what's currently going on for you

 aplay -Ll
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks
pactl list sink-inputs
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
systemctl --user pipewire pipewire-media-session pulseaudio