Bug 1943867

Summary: pipewire-pulse.service starts before pipewire.service
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ian Stapleton Cordasco <sigmavirus24>
Component: pipewireAssignee: Wim Taymans <wtaymans>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 33CC: brunovern.a, information, sigmavirus24, vquintans, wtaymans
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Description Ian Stapleton Cordasco 2021-03-28 00:11:04 UTC
Description of problem:
On Fedora 33, I'm trying out pipewire in anticipation of Fedora 34 stabilizing and upgrading. I ran

    sudo dnf swap --allowerasing pulseaudio pipewire-pulseaudio
    systemctl --user daemon-reload
    killall pulseaudio
    systemctl --user enable pipewire.service pipewire.socket pipewire-pulse.service pipewire-pulse.socket

I then logged out and logged back in and audio wasn't working for me (Spotify from Flathub, Firefox from Fedora repos playing videos - nothing produced audio). I ran

    systemctl --user status pipewire pipewire-pulse

And I noticed that the pid for /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse was newer than the pid for /usr/bin/pipewire but older than /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session. When I ran pipewire-media-session from a terminal, audio worked, so I restarted pipewire-pulse.service and audio works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

0.3.24

How reproducible:

Every time the services start on login so far

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Swap pulseaudio for pipewire-audio
2. Enable pipewire related services with systemctl
3. Log out and back in and observe audio not working; restart pipewire-pulse.service to get audio working

Actual results:
Audio doesn't work by default

Expected results:
Audio just works

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ian Stapleton Cordasco 2021-04-02 20:11:06 UTC
I think this can be fixed by altering /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service to include

Wants=pipewire.service
After=pipewire.service


In the [Unit] section. See this diff as an example

--- /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service	2021-03-18 09:42:38.000000000 -0500
+++ pipewire-pulse.service.fixed	2021-04-02 15:10:02.241976931 -0500
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 # socket-service relationship, see systemd.socket(5).
 Requires=pipewire-pulse.socket
 ConditionUser=!root
+Wants=pipewire.service
+After=pipewire.service
 
 [Service]
 LockPersonality=yes

Comment 3 Ian Stapleton Cordasco 2021-04-06 14:26:02 UTC
Thank you! I've been running with that patch and my audio has been flawless across restarts!

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 14:46:16 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 15:44:35 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '33'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 33 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2021-11-30 18:27:15 UTC
Fedora 33 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2021-11-30. Fedora 33 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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