FS#69030 - [pipewire-pulse] pipewire-pulse.socket not enabled when installing the pacakge

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Britt Yazel (brittyazel) - Friday, 18 December 2020, 23:02 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 18 December 2020, 23:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

As per the wiki, it says that pipewire-pulse.socket 'should' be enabled by default when installing the package, and that no further action should be needed, however I have found this is not the case. Upon rebooting after removing pulseaudio and installing pipewire-pulse in its place, I ended up with zero audio. Likewise, trying to enable the socket manually wasn't working as the service files all seem to be in /usr/lib/systemd/user/ which apparently isn't sourced with the normal "sudo systemd enable <foo>" command. I stumbled across this command on a Fedora bug report, which after reboot seems to have done the trick:

sudo systemctl --global start pipewire-pulse.socket

So now that I've run this, I have sound and it appears that Pipewire is doing its job as the pulseaudio replacement I was wanting.

I'm hoping this is just an oversight and can be resolved during install time though for others.

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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Friday, 18 December 2020, 23:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Britt Yazel (brittyazel) - Friday, 18 December 2020, 23:04 GMT
Appologies the command was:

"sudo systemctl --global enable pipewire-pulse.socket"

The one I listed above was in hopes I wouldn't have to reboot, which I ended up needing to anyhow.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 18 December 2020, 23:11 GMT
Sounds like a documentation issue, not a packaging issue.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 18 December 2020, 23:13 GMT
Looking at it again, the package already does this.

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