No sound in Archlinux AppVMs with pulseaudio 11.1

[Ban3]

Qubes OS version:

R3.2

Affected TemplateVMs:

archlinux

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Expected behavior:

Sound playback in AppVMs

Actual behavior:

No sound playback in AppVMs

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Having following packages installed:
pulseaudio-11.1
qubes-vm-gui-3.2.17-8

General notes:

$ pulseaudio -nF /etc/pulse/qubes-default.pa
E: [pulseaudio] ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to open module module-vchan-sink.so: module-vchan-sink.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module "module-vchan-sink".
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

$ ls /usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-vchan-sink.so
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/module-vchan-sink.so': No such file or directory

$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/pulse-11.0/modules/module-vchan-sink.so 
/usr/lib/pulse-11.0/modules/module-vchan-sink.so is owned by qubes-vm-gui 3.2.17-8

Temporary workaround

# ln -s /usr/lib/pulse-11.0/modules/module-vchan-sink.so /usr/lib/pulse-11.1/modules/

[na--]

This commit (qubes-vm-gui version 3.2.18) fixes the issue

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This commit (qubes-vm-gui version 3.2.18) fixes the issue

[ptitdoc]

The qubes-vm-gui package is currently linked to major versions of pulseaudio.

This should be restricted to minor versions of pulseaudio so that the user need to upgrade both pulseaudio and qubes-vm-gui package at the same time.

As a side note, qubes-pulseaudio package is a separate package for other templates. Separating it for archlinux could improve the user update experience.

[ptitdoc]

The qubes-vm-gui package is currently linked to major versions of pulseaudio.

This should be restricted to minor versions of pulseaudio so that the user need to upgrade both pulseaudio and qubes-vm-gui package at the same time.

As a side note, qubes-pulseaudio package is a separate package for other templates. Separating it for archlinux could improve the user update experience.

[ptitdoc]

Linked Pull Request: QubesOS/qubes-gui-agent-linux#19

[ptitdoc]

Linked Pull Request: QubesOS/qubes-gui-agent-linux#19

[ptitdoc]

I rebuilt and uploaded the archlinux binary packages with the fix.

[ptitdoc]

I rebuilt and uploaded the archlinux binary packages with the fix.