pipewire works but pactl connection refused

tywjohn · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2024 Posts: 6

I am running gnome and pipewire is working. No problem with sound at all.
However, I don't see the volume widget in the upper right menu and the sound settings show no devices. I also noticed that when I run 'pactl info' I get connection refused. I suspect this is all related.
I have followed the pipewire wiki page closely and I cannot figure out what I have done wrong.

Any tips?

flexibeast · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2024 11:46 pm Post subject:

Odd.

Firstly, can you please confirm that the necessary processes are running, via `pgrep -a pipewire` and `pgrep -a wireplumber`? The first command should result in two lines of output (the numbers will almost certainly be different):

tywjohn · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2024 Posts: 6

I ran those commands and it seems wireplumber isn't running. But I do have it installed.

I'm using openrc.

flexibeast · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2024 12:59 am Post subject:

Well, you certainly need to have WirePlumber running; that's the PipeWire session manager.

How are you starting things up? Are you using the `gentoo-pipewire-launcher` command? That should have started a WirePlumber process for you; if one isn't running, it might be that the process has either failed to start, or started and crashed, for some reason.
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tywjohn · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2024 Posts: 6

well since I'm running gnome I don't think I need to do anything according to the wiki. /etc/xdg/autostart/pipewire.desktop should run automatically which is has I assume pipewire is starting.
Why wireplumber isn't starting too, I don't know.

Should I be able to run wireplumber manually? When I do it just says failed to connect to pipewire.

If I run 'gentoo-pipewire-launcher restart' manually, wireplumber is still not running.

tywjohn · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2024 Posts: 6

I just enabled logging in gentoo-pipewire-launcher and I get the following:

cat pipewire-log
[2024-10-05T11:19:42ACST] Starting PipeWire.
[W][00474.586164] pw.context | [ context.c: 494 pw_context_new()] 0x5802f70bccb0: no modules loaded from context.modules

cat pipewire-pulse-log
[2024-10-05T11:19:42ACST] Starting PipeWire-Pulse.
[E][00474.588821] mod.fallback-sink | [module-fallback-: 426 pipewire__module_init()] can't connect: Host is down
[E][00474.588858] default | [ cmd.c: 51 do_cmd()] can't run command load-module module-always-sink: Host is down
[E][00474.589121] mod.protocol-pulse | [ pulse-server.c: 1082 do_set_client_name()] 0x555eb463e6b0: failed to connect client: Host is down
[W][00474.589132] mod.protocol-pulse | [ reply.c: 54 reply_error()] client 0x555eb464ac70 [GNOME Shell Volume Control]: ERROR command:9 (SET_CLIENT_NAME) tag:1 error:6 (Host is down)
[E][00474.589213] mod.protocol-pulse | [ pulse-server.c: 1082 do_set_client_name()] 0x555eb463e6b0: failed to connect client: Host is down
[W][00474.589218] mod.protocol-pulse | [ reply.c: 54 reply_error()] client 0x555eb464ba20 [GNOME Volume Control Media Keys]: ERROR command:9 (SET_CLIENT_NAME) tag:1 error:6 (Host is down)
[E][00479.584228] mod.protocol-pulse | [ pulse-server.c: 1082 do_set_client_name()] 0x555eb463e6b0: failed to connect client: Host is down
[W][00479.594127] mod.protocol-pulse | [ reply.c: 54 reply_error()] client 0x555eb4655f50 [GNOME Volume Control Media Keys]: ERROR command:9 (SET_CLIENT_NAME) tag:1 error:6 (Host is down)
[E][00479.595007] mod.protocol-pulse | [ pulse-server.c: 1082 do_set_client_name()] 0x555eb463e6b0: failed to connect client: Host is down
[W][00479.595048] mod.protocol-pulse | [ reply.c: 54 reply_error()] client 0x555eb464ba20 [GNOME Shell Volume Control]: ERROR command:9 (SET_CLIENT_NAME) tag:1 error:6 (Host is down)

cat wireplumber-log
[2024-10-05T11:19:43ACST] Starting WirePlumber.
Failed to connect to PipeWire

tywjohn · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2024 Posts: 6

I just figured it out. I have a local config file in .config/pipewire/pipewire.conf. For whatever reason this was causing the issue. After removing the file, everything is working

flexibeast · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2024 2:13 am Post subject:

Oh, sorry; i don't use a Desktop Environment like GNOME or KDE, and forget that DEs typically use XDG autostart ....

There's currently another thread about the "Host is down" error, in the context of a KDE setup. i'm not sure what's going on. (My own PipeWire+WirePlumber setup is continuing to work without issues, although my GUI is Wayfire.)
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tywjohn · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2024 Posts: 6