| Kraus | Evening! I need to report a possible missing couple files in an Ubuntu package? | 05:11 |
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| Kraus | 21.04, for PipeWire, there are a couple files missing required for a service that's installed automatically on new system installs | 05:12 |
| Kraus | The service pipewire-pulse.service needs usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service and usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.socket in order to function. | 05:13 |
| Kraus | Someone from #pipewire pointed me to an Arch repo where I extracted a tarball and plopped them into place, and now pipewire-pulse is working. | 05:14 |
| Kraus | The other two services associated with pipewire (pipewire.service and pipewire-media-session.service) are working fine. That last one was the one that was missing. | 05:15 |
| Kraus | I opened up a ticket on Pipewire's Gitlab to let them know and I'm waiting to hear back, but so far this is looking like a packaging error. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1087 | 05:17 |
| ubot3 | Issue 1087 in pipewire/pipewire "pipewire-pulse.service missing in Ubuntu 21.04" [Opened] | 05:17 |
| Unit193 | Do you have /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service and /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.socket? | 05:17 |
| Kraus | Unit193: I do now that the user in #pipewire had me download it from the arch repository. :) They were completely missing from a fresh Live USB drive of 21.04 I've been testing Pipewire out in. He had me go here: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pipewire/download/ | 05:20 |
| Kraus | I can make a copy of the log where he and I troubleshooted this if you like. | 05:21 |
| Kraus | Oh wait | 05:21 |
| Kraus | Sorry, /usr/share/doc/ ? | 05:21 |
| Kraus | No, no I don't. | 05:21 |
| Kraus | Wait, I think I might know what you're talking about. | 05:21 |
| Kraus | Unit193: Is it the apt package pipewire-doc ? | 05:22 |
| Kraus | " libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - documentation " ? | 05:22 |
| Unit193 | Nope, those are shipped in 'pipewire' directly. | 05:23 |
| Kraus | Ah, then no, they weren't present. I can check once again just to make sure I'm right | 05:23 |
| Kraus | Wait yeah, it looks like they're there.... are those the ones I installed? Let me go back and see if that's where he had me put them | 05:24 |
| Unit193 | dpkg -S /path/to/file will show you what package installed them. They are installed as example docs though, not as systemd user units. | 05:25 |
| Unit193 | Please take a look at https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire | 05:25 |
| Kraus | <amstan> lol, why are they in doc? | 05:25 |
| Kraus | Huh.. okay so.. I guess I'm a little confused why they're not installed out of the box.. | 05:27 |
| Unit193 | I'd guess as the wiki denotes, "This is not a supported scenario for Debian 11, and is considered experimental." or something. | 05:27 |
| Unit193 | (But the wiki shows how to enable it as a drop-in for pulse and alsa.) | 05:28 |
| Kraus | Experimental but crucial for the entire package to work, heh :) | 05:28 |
| Unit193 | Well some things have native support for pipewire, maybe. Those are just needed for it to be a drop-in for pulse and alsa (well and jack) | 05:29 |
| Unit193 | Again, I didn't do this, I'm just noting from what I know and from the wiki. Ubuntu specifically did nothing with pipewire, it's all imported with no changes from Debian. | 05:30 |
| Kraus | I really wish the people at PipeWire would write up some documentation for all this. It's really lacking. | 05:30 |
| Kraus | Nono, not blaming you for anything :) | 05:30 |
| Unit193 | I didn't read that you were, just making sure I don't sound like I know more than I do. | 05:30 |
| Kraus | Looks like they put the pieces in place for anyone courageous enough to go looking for them. | 05:30 |
| Kraus | Yeah, pipewire's pretty crazy. Entirely redoing the entire linux sound system landscape from a trio of servers into one, sitting right on ALSA. | 05:31 |
| Kraus | Ohwell, thanks for the help. I'll pass on the word to the pipewire people in that ticket thread I started. | 05:34 |
| Unit193 | It's *supposed* to be better, but often after playing some audio I get a high pitch sound. It goes away if I adjust the volume a click and then back (or sometimes takes a few.) | 05:39 |
| Unit193 | Sure thing, happy to help. | 05:39 |
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