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rigid crypt Mar 7, 2026, 3:23 PM

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Hi guys, I have pipewire, pipewire-audio, pipewire-pulse, wireplumber, pulemixer installed. Everything has been running perfectly, but I ran a sudo pacman -Syu and now I am having some issues. My sound works, but I can't control it, when I press the button to change the sound higher or lower, nothing happens. When I run "pulsemixer", it says "Failed to connect to pulseaudio: Connection refused. "
Says I am missing a dependancy, not sure what to download though or if that is the main issue. Could anyone support me here, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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○ wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2026-03-07 14:55:41 GMT; 9min ago
   Duration: 18ms
 Invocation: 6687c73fabee419d9c25b8f67c18550f
    Process: 1050 ExecStart=/usr/bin/wireplumber (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Main PID: 1050 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Mem peak: 2.2M
        CPU: 12ms

Mar 07 14:55:45 arch systemd[800]: Dependency failed for Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Mar 07 14:55:45 arch systemd[800]: wireplumber.service: Job wireplumber.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

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× pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2026-03-07 14:55:42 GMT; 8min ago
   Duration: 18ms
 Invocation: 2f7d3ea6a4f24e6aa01dbe269f8ceb38
TriggeredBy: × pipewire.socket
    Process: 1049 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire (code=exited, status=245/KSM)
   Main PID: 1049 (code=exited, status=245/KSM)
   Mem peak: 2.2M
        CPU: 12ms


Mar 07 14:55:45 arch systemd[800]: Dependency failed for PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Mar 07 14:55:45 arch systemd[800]: pipewire.service: Job pipewire.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

○ pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2026-03-07 14:55:41 GMT; 8min ago
   Duration: 31ms
 Invocation: 80865f4a455744db9619dff5bda76df4
TriggeredBy: × pipewire-pulse.socket
    Process: 930 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire-pulse (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 930 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Mem peak: 2.2M
        CPU: 28ms

Mar 07 14:55:45 arch systemd[800]: Dependency failed for PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 07 14:55:45 arch systemd[800]: pipewire-pulse.service: Job pipewire-pulse.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

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pipewire-media-session is depreciated, I believe wire plumber is used now. But I have that, so idk what is wrong

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[user@arch ~]$ systemctl --user restart pipewire wireplumber
 
pipewire-pulse
[user@arch ~]$ systemctl --user status pipewire
× pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2026-03-07 15:26:37 GMT; 633ms ago
   Duration: 25ms
 Invocation: 630f86f8f08442a18e0b033e69b3efc9
TriggeredBy: × pipewire.socket
    Process: 7661 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire (code=exited, status=245/KSM)
   Main PID: 7661 (code=exited, status=245/KSM)
   Mem peak: 2.2M
        CPU: 15ms
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch systemd[800]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch systemd[800]: Failed to start PipeWire Multimedia Service.

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Mar 07 15:26:36 arch systemd[800]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch pipewire-pulse[7631]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch pipewire-pulse[7631]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us MaxRealtimePriority, using 1
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch pipewire-pulse[7631]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch pipewire-pulse[7631]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us MinNiceLevel, using 0
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch pipewire-pulse[7631]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch pipewire-pulse[7631]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us RTTimeUSecMax, using -1
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch systemd[800]: Stopping PipeWire PulseAudio...
Mar 07 15:26:36 arch systemd[800]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
[user@arch ~]$ systemctl --user status wireplumber
○ wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2026-03-07 15:26:37 GMT; 10s ago
   Duration: 25ms
 Invocation: 694074b580404ffa919b1a08f3d6d468
    Process: 7662 ExecStart=/usr/bin/wireplumber (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Main PID: 7662 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Mem peak: 2.2M
        CPU: 16ms

Mar 07 15:26:37 arch systemd[800]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch wireplumber[7662]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch wireplumber[7662]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us MaxRealtimePriority, using 1
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch systemd[800]: Stopping Multimedia Service Session Manager...
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch systemd[800]: Stopped Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch systemd[800]: Dependency failed for Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Mar 07 15:26:37 arch systemd[800]: wireplumber.service: Job wireplumber.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

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[user@arch ~]$ systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse
○ pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2026-03-07 15:26:36 GMT; 4s ago
   Duration: 24ms
 Invocation: 49a68b988f5b4a58b49ba967ce625eb3
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
    Process: 7631 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire-pulse (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 7631 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Mem peak: 2.2M
        CPU: 14ms

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this is the output after restarting the services

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here is the output of running pulsemixer alone