Was trying to update pulseaudio and pipewire as part of trying to use some noise cancellation software, but now I can’t seem to use pulseaudio at all - the pulseaudio volume control just tells me that it’s “establishing connection to pulseaudio”, and pulseaudio -D gives me Daemon Startup Failed.
The command pulseaudio -v gave me this:
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 17.0
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is b00624cda0cf487c99d7efe5f191e50f.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 2.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/arthurzw/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulseaudio/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: System supports high resolution timers
I: [pulseaudio] cpu-x86.c: CPU flags: CMOV MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4_1 SSE4_2
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] sconv_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized conversions.
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_orc.c: Initialising ORC optimized volume functions.
E: [pulseaudio] module-echo-cancel.c: Master source not found
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-echo-cancel" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon terminated.
EDIT: Trying to follow the command instructions from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Daemon_startup_failed didn’t seem to work for me.
I’m still getting audio from my headphones for videos in my browser, but I can’t adjust the volume, and game audio doesn’t seem to work (not for all my games anyway). What do I need to do to fix this?