[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#998629: pipewire: No sound devices in Pulseaudio after recent pipewire update in bookworm

[Thomas Hager]

Package: pipewire
Version: 0.3.39-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'm running Debian Bookworm with Gnome 41.0 and Pulseaudio 15.0 on a
bunch of PCs and Laptops at home.

I installed the latest updates on two of them and after a reboot sound
was no longer functional on both. Pulseaudio does not show any cards:

➜  ~ pactl list sinks
Sink #0
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: auto_null
        Description: Dummy Output
        Driver: module-null-sink.c
        Sample Specification: s16le 6ch 44100Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-left-of-center,front-
center,front-
right,front-right-of-center,rear-center
        Owner Module: 14
        Mute: no
        Volume: front-left: 51224 /  78% / -6.42 dB,   front-left-of-
center:
51224 /  78% / -6.42 dB,   front-center: 51224 /  78% / -6.42 dB,  
front-
right: 51224 /  78% / -6.42 dB,   front-right-of-center: 51224 /  78% /
-6.42
dB,   rear-center: 51224 /  78% / -6.42 dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
        Monitor Source: auto_null.monitor
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY SET_FORMATS
        Properties:
                device.description = "Dummy Output"
                device.class = "abstract"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card"
        Formats:
                pcm
➜  ~

In syslog:

Nov  5 08:51:03 hostname pulseaudio[5423]: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-
card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="pci-0000_26_00.1"
card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_26_00.1" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes
fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes
avoid_resampling=no card_properties="module-udev-
detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.
Nov  5 08:51:03 hostname pulseaudio[5423]: Failed to load module
"module-alsa-
card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="pci-0000_28_00.4"
card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_28_00.4" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes
fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes
avoid_resampling=no card_properties="module-udev-
detect.discovered=1""):
initialization failed.

I found https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995116, but
I'm not sure if it is related, since I had the latest updates
installed.

Anyway, after downgrading pipewire et al to 0.3.38-2 and rebooting,
sound worked perfectly again on both devices, so I very much assume the
recent update of pipewire caused the issues.

Cheers,
Tom.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers      1.60
ii  libpipewire-0.3-modules  0.3.39-3
ii  pipewire-bin             0.3.39-3

pipewire recommends no packages.

pipewire suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Thomas "Duke" Hager                               duke at sigsegv.at
GPG: 2048R/791C5EB1            http://www.sigsegv.at/gpg/duke.gpg
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