Manjaro KDE Auto Mutes on Boot

Every time I boot or reboot into KDE, the auto is muted. If I unmute then next time it will mute. I have the startup sound enabled and it plays for a second and then mutes. The taskbar shows as muted and both the mute key and gui work to mute and unmute.

Hi there,
I have the same issue, I think. While I dont use startup noises or anything … my system boots muted. It works just fine to hit a volume key to unmute it. I had assumed it was hardware specific and didnt care enough to investigate. But you may be correct in tying it to KDE, as thats also what I use.

Same issue here on KDE, It is muted on startup

Just to add to reports : I am using a simple ALSA+PulseAudio setup.
(No jack, pipewire, effects services, etc)

Add a comment: My laptop auto muted and cannot find the sound device:

Cannot find input or output devices

(base) [firestar@ThinkPad ~]$ inxi -vA
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-1-MANJARO running: yes
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
           Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.39 running: yes

I can no longer reproduce.
This may be due to KDE updates…

I am on Unstable, so folks on Stable may be on the lookout :telescope:

Please post system information

inxi -Fazy

and ALSA information

sudo alsa-info.sh --upload

@gilcon - you should start a new topic and post similar data for your system

@Firestar
Audio data shows 2 incompatible sound servers running
See this post for how to either disable PipeWire services or replace PulseAudio

I am using 5.15 but 5.15/5.14 have this same problem.

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo
  driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
  alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.39 running: no

Although I did nothing instead of inxi -Fazy, now Pipewire isn’t running

after I do systemctl --user disable --now pipewire.socket pipewire.service && systemctl --user mask pipewire.socket, it still displays like above

going to unstable branch does not work either

I STILL HAVE NO SOUND DEVICE

No sound device has nothing to do with Pipewire services imho. Try suspend and wake your laptop.

I reinstalled Manjaro and it is now fixed.