[SOLVED] No Audio in Firefox from Pipewire or Pulseaudio Update

[anon93652015]

Not sure if my issue is the same as this:

Firefox without sound

Hi, Suddenly my Firefox loose all sound. It happens in every site that I go. All others apps are playing sound. Any advice?

But, this is the second time I’ve gotten this issue in the last 7 days. The first time I got it I didn’t “fix” it because I reinstalled EOS to dual-boot Windows.

The issue is that a Pipewire/Pulseaudio update kills Firefox’s ability to play sound. All other programs work just fine.

This is my most recent -Syyu:

alsa-card-profiles-1:0.3.50-1  
eos-bash-shared-1.10.41-1
gst-plugin-pipewire-1:0.3.50-1  
Iproute2-5.17.0-2  
libbpf-0.7.0-1
linux-5.17.2.arch3-1  
linux-headers-5.17.2.arch3-1
nvidia-510.60.02-14 
pavucontrol-1:5.0+r35+g964f298-1
pipewire-1:0.3.50-1  
pipewire-alsa-1:0.3.50-1
pipewire-jack-1:0.3.50-1  
pipewire-pulse-1:0.3.50-1  
vmaf-2.3.1-1
welcome-3.17.31-2

I assume it’s an audio driver issue because “pipewire” is a relatively new implementation. But if it’s something else, and someone knows what’s wrong, please help me to fix it.

I have a timeshift restore point, so I’m willing to experiment.

My audio is working fine now because I used the restore point.

So far, I’ve tried removing pipewire and going back to pulseaudio - didn’t work. But I’m not that good at adding proper depencies, so I might have done that wrong.

Haven’t tried reinstalling Firefox yet.

[anon93652015]

Also, is there any way I can avoid/skip a particular update while still updating everything else?

And is that safe?

[ricklinux]

Did you reboot after the update of pipewire? I found i had no sound also from Firefox yet i could hear audio from the volume control. Rebooted and sound is there.

[anon93652015]

Well, no I didn’t reboot this time. Only logged out and back in. The first time I had the issue I did reboot (a few times). Does that count?

Or do you think I should update it again and reboot now?

[ricklinux]

All I can say is I just did an update that included a pipewire update and i had no sound on video’s in firefox. I rebooted and then i had sound.

Edit: This was also on Plasma.

[anon93652015]

Very strange! It worked this time. Thanks!

The reason it is strange though is that when I did the update, about an hour ago, the system did not prompt me for a restart, and this time it did.

alsa-card-profiles-1:0.3.50-1  
eos-bash-shared-1.10.41-1
gst-plugin-pipewire-1:0.3.50-1  
gvfs-1.50.0+r5+g747c7f6e-1
iproute2-5.17.0-2  
libbpf-0.7.0-1  
linux-5.17.2.arch3-1    
linux-headers-5.17.2.arch3-1  
nvidia-510.60.02-14
openssh-9.0p1-1  
pavucontrol-1:5.0+r35+g964f298-1
pipewire-1:0.3.50-1  
pipewire-alsa-1:0.3.50-1
pipewire-jack-1:0.3.50-1  
pipewire-pulse-1:0.3.50-1  
vmaf-2.3.1-1
welcome-3.17.31-2

And the update took a lot longer. Hmm…

Edit: I see. There are two additional packages here.

gvfs-1.50.0+r5+g747c7f6e-1
openssh-9.0p1-1