[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1016544: pipewire-pulse: pacmd says no pulseaudio daemon running

[Sam Hartman]

Package: pipewire-pulse
Version: 0.3.56-1
Severity: normal

Many of the pipewire docs imply that pacmd ought to work even when pipewire-pulse is running.

Unfortunately, when I run

hartmans at industrial-algebra:~(1)> pacmd info
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

Other users on #debian-devel reported the same.
strace gets as far as reading $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse/pid, then looking up info on that process in /proc, then starting to open message catalogs.

I'm happy to provide more information as needed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.60
ii  pipewire             0.3.56-1

pipewire-pulse recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse suggests:
ii  libspa-0.2-bluetooth  0.3.56-1
ii  pulseaudio-utils      15.0+dfsg1-4+b1

-- no debconf information