No sound playback devices available after in-place upgrade to 4.2 #8560
Description
Qubes OS release
4.2RC3
Brief summary
After update to QubesOS 4.2, I am no longer generally able to play any audio or have sound, and this appears to be because the audio device is no longer recognized as an output. This also causes any video that I attempt to play to hang forever as it seems that the player (VLC for example) attempts to play sound and gets some sort of error which causes the (visual parts as well) the video itself to hang. Very occasionally, a reboot seems to allow sound to work until I shutdown.
Steps to reproduce
- Upgrade to QubesOS 4.2 from 4.1 using the script.
- Boot and attempt to play any video in any VM, or attempt to change the output device and see that the internal speakers do not appear as a device.
Expected behavior
Sound worked perfectly on 4.1, and so I expected the same would be true of 4.2. Perhaps some configuration in the script is not being done correctly to link the new pipewire infrastructure for dom0?
Actual behavior
Sound output is no longer supported. Very occasionally on boot, it does seem to work. I posted on the forums here: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/audio-no-longer-works-at-all-in-dom0-and-vms-after-upgrading-to-4-2/20839/6 and it seems that others have had the same issue, though some seem to have been able to fix it from the terminal. This did seem to work for me for one boot, but then no longer worked. I very strongly suspect that this is an issue with the update script, so I could simply clean install QubesOS 4.2, but then I would be unable to test any fix for the bug, so I am waiting on that option :-)