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Bug 2059874 - pw.conf: execvp error 'pactl': No such file or directory
Summary: pw.conf: execvp error 'pactl': No such file or directory
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pipewire
Version: 9.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Wim Taymans
QA Contact: Martin Krajnak
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 2062821
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-03-02 09:02 UTC by Martin Krajnak
Modified: 2022-05-17 12:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pipewire-0.3.47-2.el9_0
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Clone Of:
: 2062821 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-05-17 12:31:14 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
pm-rhel: mirror+


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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-114199 0 None None None 2022-03-02 09:14:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2022:2328 0 None None None 2022-05-17 12:31:20 UTC

Description Martin Krajnak 2022-03-02 09:02:56 UTC
Description of problem:

As @vcholasta pointed out today, there is an error message:

● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-03-02 07:30:27 CET; 2h 30min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
   Main PID: 2500 (pipewire-pulse)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 203431)
     Memory: 33.4M
        CPU: 25.458s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
             └─2500 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Mar 02 07:30:27 t590 systemd[2176]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 02 07:30:27 t590 pipewire-pulse[2505]: pw.conf: execvp error 'pactl': No such file or directory


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pipewire-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-libs-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-debugsource-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-devel-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-v4l2-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-libs-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-utils-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-gstreamer-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-alsa-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-pulseaudio-debuginfo-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-devel-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-v4l2-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-utils-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-alsa-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64
pipewire-doc-0.3.47-1.el9.x86_64

How reproducible:
always


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Wim Taymans 2022-03-02 09:50:28 UTC
It's because it always wants to load the always-sink module:

# Extra modules can be loaded here. Setup in default.pa can be moved here
context.exec = [
    { path = "pactl"        args = "load-module module-always-sink" }
    #{ path = "pactl"        args = "load-module module-switch-on-connect" }
    #{ path = "/usr/bin/sh"  args = "~/.config/pipewire/default.pw" }
]

Maybe we should require pulseaudio-tools as a runtime dependency for pipewire-pulse.

Comment 4 Wim Taymans 2022-03-04 14:17:28 UTC
> Mar 04 07:48:12 t590 wireplumber[2205]: Failed to set scheduler settings: Operation not permitted

This is because the user does not have the right permissions to set the nice level of wireplumber. It's harmless but I don't know
of a good way to add the permissions.

Comment 9 Martin Krajnak 2022-03-14 07:28:20 UTC
[test@rhel-9 ~]$ systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service 
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; enabled; ve>
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-03-14 08:15:55 CET; 2min 10s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
   Main PID: 895 (pipewire-pulse)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 24826)
     Memory: 4.1M
        CPU: 17ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user/session.slice/pipew>
             └─895 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Mar 14 08:15:55 rhel-9 systemd[848]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 14 08:15:56 rhel-9 pipewire-pulse[1039]: 536870912
[test@rhel-9 ~]$ rpm -q pipewire
pipewire-0.3.47-2.el9_0.x86_64

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-17 12:31:14 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (new packages: pipewire), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:2328


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