Package: pipewire-system-services Version: 1.4.9-1~bpo13+1 Note that the following contains a list of issues which I *think* are all related to the backported pipewire-system-services package that I'm running on trixy 13.3. I'm happy to split them out, but I think that they're all related to how this is implemented.
When I attempt to install pipewire as a system-wide service, the process fails with several problems. It also appears that no attempt is made to start the service after installation, but I cannot confirm that at this time, since it's unclear which service should be "started", if any. Attempting to run `systemctl start pipewire` fails because pipewire.socket cannot be started as a dependency of pipewire because the user pipewire does not exist. ``` pipewire.socket: Control process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER ``` I can add that user with `useradd --system pipewire -g pipewire`, but then wireplumber attempts to create and write to `/home/pipewire/.local/state/wireplumber` which fails. This is potentially a bug in wireplumber-system-services, but I'm noting it here since it happens after creating the missing pipewire user. ``` wp-state: failed to create directory /home/pipewire/.local/state/wireplumber: Permission denied wp-state: could not save stream-properties: Failed to create file “/home/pipewire/.local/state/wireplumber/stream-properties.0ZLNL3”: No such file or directory ``` I think this looks a lot like this bug: * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012454 Creating that directory makes the error "go away", but the file should not exist in that directory or path, since pipewire is a system user, and according to the wireplumber documentation, it should be configurable. * https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/wireplumber/daemon/locations.html Furthermore, pipewire dependencies appear to want to launch a dbus-daemon which fails because there's no display. ``` spa.dbus: Failed to connect to session bus: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 ``` I don't think that the system actually works, since the `pw-top` command returns this: ``` Can't connect: Host is down ``` When uninstalling pipewire-system-services, it also appears that none of the services are stopped and disabled, leaving processes running. It also appears that the `/run/pipewire` directory is not removed when the package is uninstalled. Finally, if a pipewire user is added, the uninstall cannot remove the pipewire group, since it has a user and fails with a fatal error. For context, since my use-case is not a screen reader, rather it's a proxmox server that I want to provide audio access to all of the guests without requiring passthrough of physical hardware, since that cannot be shared between guests. I'm running this on a trixie (13.3) install of proxmox. Note that while I'm a long-time (25 years) Debian user, I have little or no experience with pipewire, wireplumber and little experience with proxmox. Please let me know if you need logs or more information. Kind regards, Onno -- Onno Benschop ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. If you need to know: "What computer should I buy?" http://goo.gl/spsb66 ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [email protected]
