Just upgraded an older Dell Vostro to F37, no sound. When I try to play a test sound on any device in the Plasma Systemsettings Audio widget, I get, “Error trying to play a test sound. The system said: “Invalid state””
~# wpctl status
Could not connect to PipeWire
~# inxi -A
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Logitech HD Webcam C910 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
Device-3: Logitech USB Headset type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
API: ALSA v: k6.2.9-200.fc37.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.68 status: active (process)
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active (root, process)
Any suggestions on how I can go about debugging this? If I remove all sound-related rpms (alsa, pipewire, and pulseaudio), what do I need to reinstall to get audio working in KDE Plasma again?
Usually sound is setup as part of logging into a desk top environment.
Are you in a desktop environment?
Are you running wpctl in a terminal started in the desktop?
The package pulseaudio.x86_64 conflicted with installing install pipewire-pulseaudio and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, so the above command removed pulseaudio.x86_64 and now sound seems to work. The outouts of wpctl status and inxi -A are the same, except that the PulseAudio server line is gone:
~# wpctl status
Could not connect to PipeWire
~# inxi -A
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Logitech HD Webcam C910 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
Device-3: Logitech USB Headset type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
API: ALSA v: k6.2.9-200.fc37.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.68 status: active (process)
FWIW, YouTube videos would not play until I fixed this.