Package: pipewire Version: 0.3.80-2 Severity: normal Hey there.
Recently, cinnamon-settings-daemon in version 5.8.1-2 started to prefer pipewire(-pulse) over pulseaudio, so I thought cinnamon would be ready for it and gave it a try. That is, I've installed pipewire (and pipewire-pulse) but no recommended packages, especially not wireplumber. I further purged pulseaudio, but not pulseaudio-utils which pipewire-pulse Suggests, and of course non of the dependencies from other packages, like libpulse-mainloop-glib0, libpulse0 and libpulsedsp. Restarted to get all potentially remaining processes removed. After that no soundcards were found (just a Dummy device entry). Worse, processes started to use sound (e.g. firefox, but also the "test sound" thingy from Cinnamon's Audio Mixer), they seemed to freeze. Firefox seems to have come back to live for short times (where I saw tabs were continuing to load), but I couldn't do anything with it (no reaction). Turned out that wireplumber was needed, with that I got my output device back and sound works nicely. Not sure whether any of the pipewire packages should depend on wireplumber... or which part here requires it exactly... but people may run into trouble without it. And at least the part of freezing other processes seems like something that shouldn't happen at all. HTH, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages pipewire depends on: ii adduser 3.137 ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2 ii libpipewire-0.3-modules 0.3.80-2 ii pipewire-bin 0.3.80-2 pipewire recommends no packages. pipewire suggests no packages. -- no debconf information