Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:15:16 +0000
From: Ian Smith <m4r35n357@gmx.co.uk>
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Cc: Ian Smith <m4r35n357@gmx.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Pipewire user service after upgrade to 3.23
Message-ID: <20251212101516.78cb614c@bonsai.doitto.me.uk>
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More information:

$ rc-status -Ua
Runlevel: gui
 pipewire                                                          [
stopped  ] Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
Dynamic Runlevel: needed/wanted
Dynamic Runlevel: manual

$ ls -lAh /etc/xdg/autostart
total 60K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  209 Nov 28 19:52 .pipewire.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  296 Nov 23 10:44 at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.7K Nov 30 16:23 gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.2K Nov 30 16:23 gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.9K Jan  3  2025 xfce4-power-manager.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.3K Dec 21  2024 xfce4-screensaver.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.1K May 30  2025 xfsettingsd.desktop

$ rc-service -U pipewire restart
 * You are attempting to run an openrc service on a
 * system which openrc did not boot.
 * You may be inside a chroot or you may have used
 * another initialization system to boot this system.
 * In this situation, you will get unpredictable results!
 * If you really want to do this, issue the following command:
 * touch /run/user/1000/openrc/softlevel
 * ERROR: dbus failed to start
 * You are attempting to run an openrc service on a
 * system which openrc did not boot.
 * You may be inside a chroot or you may have used
 * another initialization system to boot this system.
 * In this situation, you will get unpredictable results!
 * If you really want to do this, issue the following command:
 * touch /run/user/1000/openrc/softlevel
 * ERROR: wireplumber failed to start
 * ERROR: cannot start pipewire as dbus would not start

To reiterate, pipewire IS running and I CAN use more than one audio
input at a time, so what is happening here?

Ian.