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Re: [SOLVED] No audio through Pipewire

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:57:56 +0000

You're trying to install conflicting packages that are all included with the glob - pipewire*. You could just install pipewire-audio which will pull in the necessary packages automatically.

Get rid of the pipewire-media-session stuff and let wireplumber install.

Re: [SOLVED] No audio through Pipewire

dummy@example.com (sergey1212) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:06:06 +0000

Below are my notes (synthesis from different sources, including this forum) to troubleshoot PipeWire and to force it to work as it should.
apt-get install --upgrade pipewire*

This command don't run smoothly

Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'pipewire-media-session-alsa' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-media-session' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-pulse' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-audio-client-libraries' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-media-session-pulseaudio' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-tests' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-v4l2' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-libcamera' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-jack' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-media-session-jack' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-audio' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-bin' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-doc' for glob 'pipewire*'
Note, selecting 'pipewire-alsa' for glob 'pipewire*'
pipewire-pulse is already the newest version (0.3.65-3+deb12u1).
pipewire-audio is already the newest version (0.3.65-3+deb12u1).
pipewire is already the newest version (0.3.65-3+deb12u1).
pipewire-bin is already the newest version (0.3.65-3+deb12u1).
pipewire-bin set to manually installed.
pipewire-alsa is already the newest version (0.3.65-3+deb12u1).
pipewire-alsa set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pipewire-media-session : Conflicts: wireplumber but 0.4.13-1 is to be installed
 pipewire-media-session-alsa : Conflicts: wireplumber but 0.4.13-1 is to be installed
 pipewire-media-session-jack : Conflicts: wireplumber but 0.4.13-1 is to be installed
 pipewire-media-session-pulseaudio : Conflicts: wireplumber but 0.4.13-1 is to be installed
 wireplumber : Conflicts: pipewire-media-session
               Conflicts: pipewire-media-session:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have Devuan 6.

Re: [SOLVED] No audio through Pipewire

dummy@example.com (blazing_fastcat) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 03:14:06 +0000

@Devarch your solution worked, everything is perfect right out the gate, thank you so much! And thank you to everyone else for such friendliness. Much love, God bless!

Re: [SOLVED] No audio through Pipewire

dummy@example.com (Tatwi) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:37:16 +0000

Devarch's script and instructions were required for sound to work in KDE Plasma on Excalibur when I installed it on the 25th.

Re: [SOLVED] No audio through Pipewire

dummy@example.com (Devarch) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:40:24 +0000

Maybe try to reinstall and reconfigure it from the beginning. It's much quicker than to find where the problem comes from.
Below are my notes (synthesis from different sources, including this forum) to troubleshoot PipeWire and to force it to work as it should.

apt-get install --upgrade pipewire*

apt-get install wireplumber pipewire-alsa

check

/etc/pulse/client.conf

it should have

autospawn = yes

as well as

/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/01-enable-autospawn.conf

if you still have pulseaudio-enable-autospawn service, then eliminate it

you can also try to

touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio

if there are no such folders then create them

touch /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-alsa
cp /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/alsa.conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf /etc/alsa/conf.d/

for bluetooth with piewire

apt-get install libspa-0.2-bluetooth
apt-get remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

Than pipewire will attempt to choose the best possible codec by default

Finally, create pipewire_start.sh with the following content

#!/bin/bash

# Added to start pipewire on login to desktop
# https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5867
# was the ~/.xsessionrc -rw-rw-r-- permissions
# now ~/bin/pipewire_start.sh executable permissions
# as bash script loaded from KDE autostart in System Settings

# kill any existing pipewire instance to restore sound
pkill -u "$USER" -fx /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse 1>/dev/null 2>&1
pkill -u "$USER" -fx /usr/bin/wireplumber 1>/dev/null 2>&1
pkill -u "$USER" -fx /usr/bin/pipewire 1>/dev/null 2>&1

exec /usr/bin/pipewire &

# wait for pipewire to start before attempting to start related daemons
while [ "$(pgrep -f /usr/bin/pipewire)" = "" ] ; do
   sleep 1
done

# start wireplumber
exec /usr/bin/wireplumber &

# start pipewire-pulse
exec /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse &

make it executable and add to session autorun

Re: [SOLVED] No audio through Pipewire

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:18:17 +0000

I moved this post to the section that has the most pipewire discussions. There's also one in the Documentation section you might want to look at.

[SOLVED] No audio through Pipewire

dummy@example.com (blazing_fastcat) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:48:20 +0000

No audio through Pipewire

So in Ardour, whenever I opened up a new project and made a new audio channel, the audio was extremely low, like in the -100db range, so I figured to tinker around with the audio packages, I opted to install pipewire, replacing pulseaudio, and now I have no audio, when poking around in the internet, I found that pipewire has to have files in certain places:
~/,config/pipewire
and
/etc/pipewire

Links:
https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pipe … onf_5.html

Main config doc page:
https://docs.pipewire.org/page_config.html

I tried doing it, but to no avail. I'm still configuring things though, opening this for any future troubleshooting.

I'm running a simple Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD audio interface, no drivers needed, just plug and play.
First time dealing with this issue since this is not my first distro, but with the new Pipewire workflow, I've been getting low/no audio issues.

UPDATE:
It should be noted that when using higher end audio cards/interfaces for audio production, higher rates are needed.
So in line 30 of pipewire.conf, the default allowed clock rates should include [ 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000 ]