Bug 1978451 - missing /usr/bin/pulseaudio binary causes no sound in 32-bit Unity3D-based games
Summary: missing /usr/bin/pulseaudio binary causes no sound in 32-bit Unity3D-based games
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pipewire
Version: 40
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wim Taymans
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-07-01 20:27 UTC by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Modified: 2025-05-16 07:38 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2025-05-16 07:38:21 UTC
Type: Bug
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freedesktop.org Gitlab pipewire pipewire issues 3011 0 None opened No sound in Unity3D-based games due to missing pulseaudio binary 2023-06-29 20:05:15 UTC

Description Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2021-07-01 20:27:16 UTC
Description of problem:
32-bit Unity3D-based games crash after upgrading Fedora 33 to 34.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pipewire-0.3.31-2.fc34

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try running a game that utilizes the 32-bit version of Unity3D engine, e.g. ABC Murders or Tetrobot And Co.

Actual results:
Games crash with SIGSEGV: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer

Expected results:
Games run without crashing as they used to on F33.

Additional info:
It looks like the games are linked to pulseaudio (libpulse-simple.so.0) and they try to run pulseaudio --check (according to strace):

41602 execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "pulseaudio --check > /dev/null 2"...], 0xffc3ecac /* 81 vars */ <unfinished ...>

If that fails, they try to fall back to alsa audio backend and crash. As a work-around, I tried symlinking /usr/bin/pulseaudio to /usr/bin/true and it makes the games run without crashing.

I can't actually install /usr/bin/pulseaudio, because it conflicts with pipewire:
Error: 
 Problem: problem with installed package pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.31-2.fc34.x86_64
  - package pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.31-2.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio provided by pulseaudio-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
  - package pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.31-2.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon provided by pulseaudio-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
  - package pulseaudio-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon provided by pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.31-2.fc34.x86_64
  - package pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.25-1.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio provided by pulseaudio-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
  - package pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.25-1.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon provided by pulseaudio-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
  - package pulseaudio-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon provided by pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.25-1.fc34.x86_64
  - conflicting requests

Could pipewire provide a dummy /usr/bin/pulseaudio binary?

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 16:45:26 UTC
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Comment 2 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2022-05-31 09:34:37 UTC
Still reproducible on F36.

Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-02-04 23:56:27 UTC
Still reproducible on F37 with pipewire 0.3.65.

Comment 4 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-02-05 22:15:53 UTC
By reproducible I mean no sound. The crash is gone and e.g. Tetrobot and Co runs fine, just with no sound.

Comment 5 Aoife Moloney 2023-11-23 00:05:47 UTC
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Comment 6 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2023-11-23 10:23:26 UTC
No movement upstream, bumping to rawhide.

Comment 7 Aoife Moloney 2024-02-15 22:54:08 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 40 development cycle.
Changing version to 40.

Comment 8 Aoife Moloney 2025-04-25 10:01:13 UTC
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Comment 9 Aoife Moloney 2025-05-16 07:38:21 UTC
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