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x2b

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Registered: 2012-05-13

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[Solved] Cannot load zeroconf-publish module in pipewire

I am trying to set up network sound using pipewire. I have installed the pipewire, pipewire-pulse, and pipewire-zeroconf packages on both the sending and receiving side. To share sinks, I load the required module, module-zeroconf-publish, on the receiving side.

When try to load the module (as normal user with UID=1000), everything looks fine.

> pactl load-module module-zeroconf-publish                                                                                                                                                  
536870917

However, journalctl shows several errors:

Jul 16 21:38:12 hostname pipewire-pulse[2399]: mod.zeroconf-publish: error id:62 seq:122 res:-2 (No such file or directory): no global 104
Jul 16 21:38:12 hostname pipewire-pulse[2399]: mod.zeroconf-publish: error id:0 seq:148 res:-2 (No such file or directory): unknown resource 62 op:7

Needless to say,  I cannot see any zeroconf entries using for example

avahi-browse --all

So far I have not made any changes to the config files, so the setup is rather pristine and I doubt that the problem. Has anyone experienced any similar issues?

Edit: These error messages are apparently spurious and don not indicate any real problems. The entries were missing because module-native-protocol-tcp was not loaded.

Last edited by x2b (2025-07-25 13:35:53)