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

[Cesare Leonardi]

Package: pipewire
Version: 0.3.39-3
Followup-For: Bug #998629
X-Debbugs-Cc: celeonar at gmail.com

Same problem for me.
After upgrading from pipewire 0.3.38-2 to 0.3.39-3, audio is not working
anymore.

Thomas Hager wrote:
> 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.

I've found that "pipewire-media-session" was reintroduced in sid and
installing this instead of "wireplumber", resolves the problem for me.
While waiting that it enters testing, the ones that is trying to get
its audio working again, could find the following steps simpler than
downgrading pulseaudio and its dependencies.

- Leave pipewire at the current testing version (0.3.39-3).
- Uninstall "wireplumber".
- Download pipewire-media-session 0.4.1-1 from sid:
  https://packages.debian.org/sid/pipewire-media-session
- For amd64:
  dpkg -i pipewire-media-session_0.4.1-1_amd64.deb
- Reboot.

Cesare.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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.

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