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Hello so today fedora/linux cannot find any audio devices and it randomly started happening

Update: removing Pulseaudio and reinstalling Plasma-pa helped ty for the nice comments tho No help required anymore

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is your audio server running? I assume it's pipewire on Fedora 40.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i dont understand what command should i ru n i tried one from google and it says Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This must be a pulse audio command.

Try reinstalling pipewire using:

dnf reinstall pipewire

See if that fixes your problem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

nope same issue the problem started yesterday installing pulseaudio helped but made the problem worse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, did you replace pipewire-pulse with pulseaudio?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

i think i installed it on top i thought its gonna solve the problem but after a restart it made it worse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pipewire-pulse (or whatever the package is called) is the drop-in replacement for pulseaudio that makes apps, that normally use pulseaudio, use pipewire instead. You can't have both installed. You can have pipewire and pulseaudio installed at the same time but your system can only use one of them at a time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

ty for the facts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

try > sudo dnf reinstall pipewire-pulseaudio

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Error: No packages marked for reinstall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe try with kpipewire.

But also check audio in the kde settings maybe they got misconfigured.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm... Can you type

systemctl --user status pipewire

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Congrats! : D

If you have time, maybe share the solution so future people can check and fix it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago