No sound after kernel recovery

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Hello, I’ve recently had to recover my system due to an interrupted update following this tutorial. Now I am getting no audio output + I my function keys have stopped working for volume adjust and I am also unable to access the system sound settings UI as per the image.

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I am using pipewire

pipewire
Compiled with libpipewire 1.0.7
Linked with libpipewire 1.0.7

Here is my system info (inxi -zv8)
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Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: pipewire-media-session status: off 3: pipewire-alsa
    type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/media-session

PipeWire Media Session is an example session manager for PipeWire.

Note that we recommend the use of WirePlumber instead.

Install wireplumber to replace deprecated session manager

pamac install wireplumber

and reboot system to restart PipeWire services

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Thanks for the reply,
I’ve installed wireplumber + rebooted and it has not resolved the issues but the systeminfo now shows wireplumber as expected.

Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: off 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
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PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: off

pipewire and wireplumber are not active - status: off

I suggest check services for errors

systemctl --user -l pipewire wireplumber
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Tha’s worked out, turns out that pipewire.service was masked for some reason, unmasking & enabling it has fixed it (as per pipewire.service is masked - no sound after update · Issue #49 · pipewire-debian/pipewire-debian · GitHub)

Now the audio is working but I can’t control it using my function keys (f1-f3) while other function keys for brightness etc. do work.

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pipewire.service is usually controlled by pipewire.socket and does not need to be enabled

audio is working but I can’t control it using my function keys (f1-f3)

ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 - Laptop/Lenovo - ArchWiki

If the Fn keys do not work, to update the BIOS, download the “Bootable CD” of the BIOS Update*
and use geteltoritoAUR to extract the .img from the .iso with geteltorito.pl -o bios.img downloaded.iso, then use etcher / mintstickAUR / dd to make a bootable USB.

* BIOS/UEFI :: thinkpad e14 gen 2 type 20ta 20tb - Lenovo Support US

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After the error’s shows up, i would ask myself if this problems are related to the newest update or the interrupted update!?

You could probably evade all this problems, if you had a timeshift backup and simple restore the last fresh snapshot and update again.

To see if this problems persists and to verify this had nothing to do with the recovery/interruption.

Maybe there are even more bugs around in your install that you just don’t experience yet. :man_shrugging: