Possible dbus related issue with Pipewire

[fjmorazan]

Submission type

• Bug report
• Feature Request

Package name & version you are having issues with or have a request for

pipewire 0.3.40-2

Used repositories

build repo

Expected behaviour

Pipewire's audio session to work

Actual behaviour

No audio with pipewire service enabled

Steps to reproduce the problem

systemctl --user enable --now pipewire-pulse.{service,socket}
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[demmm]

With the last 2 commits for pipewire, it is shifted to system services, not user:
https://github.com/KaOSx/main/commits/master/pipewire
That said, I have not been able yet either to get it to work, please also try with sysetmct -enable pipewire.....
Check the working of wireplumber too.

[fjmorazan]

Hi demm, sorry for the late response

I tried enabling pipewire as system services without luck, then I tried to fiddle with wireplumber as user service using the docs of the project. I think I'll be using the default audio solution for the time being

[demmm]

Issue will stay open, since I am working on getting this to be implemented (and should become default in the next few months).

[fjmorazan]

Hi! Just an update about pipewire. It seems all I need to do now is just to issue the command systemctl enable --user --now wireplumber to use it as default audio server, without needing to enable explicitly the pipewire and pipewire-pulse service

$ systemctl status --user 
● t440p-ks
    State: running
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 0 units
    Since: Sat 2022-01-29 11:36:45 CST; 2min 53s ago
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-20378.slice/user@20378.service
           ├─init.scope
           │ ├─1394 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
           │ └─1395 "(sd-pam)"
           └─session.slice
             ├─pipewire.service
             │ └─3315 /usr/bin/pipewire
             └─wireplumber.service
               └─3316 /usr/bin/wireplumber

[demmm]

But, how to check now if sound actually goes over pipewire?

[fjmorazan]

I was wrong, it seems I need to enable pipewire-pulse to make pipewire the audio server using this guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire#Replacing_PulseAudio

$ pactl info | grep "Server Name"
Server Name: pulseaudio
┌─francisco@t440p-ks [~]
└──>$ systemctl enable --now --user wireplwireplumber.service 
Created symlink /home/francisco/.config/systemd/user/pipewire-session-manager.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service.
Created symlink /home/francisco/.config/systemd/user/pipewire.service.wants/wireplumber.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service.
┌─francisco@t440p-ks [~]
└──>$ systemctl enable --user --now pipewire-pulse.{service,socket}
Created symlink /home/francisco/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/pipewire-pulse.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service.
Created symlink /home/francisco/.config/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire-pulse.socket -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.socket.
┌─francisco@t440p-ks [~]
└──>$ pactl info | grep "Server Name"
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.44)

Now the only problem that remains is that I have to restart wireplumber whenever I boot the system to be able to use the audio devices

[demmm]

Thanks for checking into this. Works here too on a per user basis (and started during a session).
If pipewire just works, then it should become default and needs to be enabled/run system wide, will look into this.

[demmm]

Pipewire now just works and is default for KaOS, closing.