Bug#981837: pipewire:amd64: Fails to play audio and video

[felipe]

After asking for some help on #pipewire channel, I could make pipewire work 
again by creating the following file:

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

and restarting pipewire service.

This bug can be closed, but it would be better if there was a changelog 
(apt-listchanges) mentioning the removal of this
file, which is necessary even if I don't have pulseaudio in this system.

Bug#981837: pipewire:amd64: Fails to play audio and video

[zeden]

Package: pipewire
Version: 0.3.19-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: ze...@riseup.net

Dear Maintainer,

After the last update of pipewire on debian sid, I have been unable to
play audio and video.

Bellow are the errors I gathered:

$ pw-play --list-targets
[W][03493.811358][module-rtkit.c:517 set_nice()] could not set nice-level 
to -11: No such file or directory
Available targets ("*" denotes default): -1
[W][03493.812846][module-rtkit.c:504 idle_func()] could not make thread 
realtime: No such file or directory

$ sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb --unit=user@1000.service
pipewire[1082]: Failed to receive portal pid: 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get PID of name 
'org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop': no such name

Before this update, I could use pw-play with targets -1(default), 39(usb sound 
card), 40(onboard) and 41(hdmi). Now I can't even list them.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire:amd64 depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.60
ii  libpipewire-0.3-modules  0.3.19-3
ii  pipewire-bin 0.3.19-3

pipewire:amd64 recommends no packages.

pipewire:amd64 suggests no packages.

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