Thanks so much for that command. This is exactly what I’ve been wanting to do all week - remove the Pipewire update! Downgrade wouldn’t work for me due to unresolvable dependencies.
It’s so satisfying to learn how to achieve Linux goals and get more confident with the system.
Thanks again.
I’m a perpetual newbie myself. I just got lucky on this one. Let’s hope the issue is resolved soon so we can continue updates. Loving Endeavour OS for sure.
Here’s a temp fix to exclude pipewire from yay updates.
kate /etc/pacman.conf
Uncomment IgnorePkg and add the following after =
pipwire pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse alsa-card-profiles WirePlumber kpipewire libpipewire libwireplumber gst-plugin-pipewire
Looks like there might be a fix noted (5 days ago, GitLab, from Wim Taymans) just before my reply. But that’s way above my head to understand it.
Excluded pipewire from updating, per your suggestion, and it was successful. So I’ll stick with version 1.0.7 of pipewire for now
Thank you!
To avoid error messages, I fixed 2 typos:
pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse alsa-card-profiles wireplumber kpipewire libpipewire libwireplumber gst-plugin-pipewire
Pipewire 1.2.1 update was released today. I updated my system and the problems with Kodi amongst others seem to be resolved. It should be safe to update, though I recommend making a snapshot just in case.
Successfully updated Endeavour! on both laptops. Pipewire v.1.2.1 also fixed another issue I was having. My Soundcore earbuds worked perfectly on youtube and other audio. But on Kodi, there was uneven sound and a weird clicking. Didn’t have the issue with Bose bluetooth speaker. v1.2.1 seems to have resolved that problem as well.
@ncdc The devs of Kodi are looking into why it is having issues with Pipewire, both in Arch, but in Flatpak as well. If you are still having problems with audio, they suggest start Kodi using the --audio-backend=pulseaudio option. From conversations with them, they a looking at moving back to Pulseaudio as default on the next major point release until they can figure out what is going on with Pipewire.
This is what I have had to do in order to have proper video and audio playback.
I use Plasma, so my instructions are for it. They should be similar with other DE’s.
Right click on the Kodi icon and select “edit application”
Click on the “application” tab in the dialog box.
In the “Arguments” put the following: --audio-backend=pulseaudio
Click “OK”.
Now whenever you start Kodi from that icon, it will use Pulseaudio and the pipewire-pulse translation layer.
I hope this helps!