pulseaudio.socket appears to be working with no problems
pulseaudio.service has a minor misconfiguration (a systemd service should be disabled if it is controlled by a socket) but it is unlikely to be the cause of recent audio issues
use this command to disable pulseaudio.service
systemctl --user disable pulseaudio
The message about /etc/pulse/default.pa.d is just a warning and can be ignored. PulseAudio 15.0 release notes explain why this feature was added for packagers to add customisations
Warning message can be dealt with by creating an empty folder
sudo mkdir /etc/pulse/default.pa.d/
Warning message Could not find org.bluez.BatteryProviderManager1.RegisterBatteryProvider()
can also be ignored
(or see this post for how to edit bluetooth service to remove experimental features option)
[most of the comment above was drafted last night before comments from other users]
Welcome to Manjaro forum @manoellgamer, @MeGustaElArroz23, @tbst, @warnimon
and @awakeel
good to see some of you thinking around the problem looking for an effective solution
@tbst - I agree pulseaudio is not causing the problem (but it is weird that restarting pulseaudio provides a temporary fix). The last update did not include any new pulseaudio packages
And if users on PipeWire are having similar problems it probably isn’t either of the software sound servers
@jrguerrero
If downgrading the kernel resolved audio issues I suspect the new kernel version may have some changes for audio drivers (likely suspect is something related to Intel SST laptop drivers? for kaybylake? new drivers were released to later kernels a few months ago maybe just been backported to LTS kernels?)
Another strange thing about this issue was that it was not reported by anyone on unstable or testing repositories. I suspect that most users on these repositories may be using kernel v6.0 rather than an LTS kernel
So I suggest users install kernel v6.0
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux60
If later kernel works that is a better long-term solution
If kernel v6.0 doesn’t work get more information about audio hardware and drivers from ALSA
sudo alsa-info.sh --upload