[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#995116: pipewire: Soundcards not found on pipewire

[Alexandre Lymberopoulos]

Package: pipewire
Version: 0.3.37-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I used to have Pulseaudio here and I wasn't happy with its interaction
with Jack (I try to play and record myself through a firewire
interface on ardour now and then). When I heard of pipewire this an
obvious try to makes things happen here more fluidly.

The installation of pipewire was a total success, working for a while
(using that pipewire-pulse to keep tha pasystrays and pavucontrol
tools working here to manage all sound cards inputs and
volumes). Yesterday, after trying to record on obs a web conference
running on Zoom, the first time was and the last test had crappy sound
and now I can't see the sound cards in the pasystray menu and the
system plays no sound at all. I just upgraded to version 0.3.37 and,
even after a poweroff/poweron it remains in the same state.

I have installed the following packages on the last upgrade:

[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libpipewire-0.3-common:amd64 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] libpipewire-0.3-0:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] libspa-0.2-modules:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] pipewire:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] pipewire-audio-client-libraries:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] pipewire-bin:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] pipewire-media-session:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1
[UPGRADE] pipewire-pulse:amd64 0.3.36-1 -> 0.3.37-1

Also, I followed the steps on the Wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire#Debian_Testing.2FUnstable), including the use of qjackctl (that I was used to).

Sorry if I'm not too precise here, but I'm an "end user" with full will to help to develop the system.

Thanks in advance and best regards, Alexandre

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
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  0.3.37-1
ii  pipewire-bin             0.3.37-1

pipewire recommends no packages.

pipewire suggests no packages.

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