This is a similar question to Failed update due to conflicting packages "pipewire-pulse" and "pulseaudio" ,but none of the solutions worked for me.
Stranger yet, pipewire-pulse isn’t even installed.
Upgrade attempt:
root@MidnightStarSign:/home/sarah# pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 165.7 KiB 1763 KiB/s 00:00 [#####################################] 100%
extra 1982.0 KiB 11.6 MiB/s 00:00 [#####################################] 100%
community 6.6 MiB 22.9 MiB/s 00:00 [#####################################] 100%
multilib 181.1 KiB 58.9 MiB/s 00:00 [#####################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N]
Remove pipewire-pulse:
root@MidnightStarSign:/home/sarah# pacman -R pipewire-pulse
error: target not found: pipewire-pulse
Or:
root@MidnightStarSign:/home/sarah# pacman -Ss pipewire-pulse
extra/pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.22-2
Low-latency audio/video router and processor - PulseAudio replacement
How should I proceed? (I technically have system level BTRFS backups from last month, but I would obviously prefer to fix the main system)
EDIT 0:
I removed pulseaudio (thank god for BTRFS backups lol), and discovered that something wants to install pipewire-pulse, although I have no idea what is trying to do so. Was pulseaudio replaced in the general repository or something?
EDIT 1: After removing pulseaudio and updating and restarting (which went well, although I lost the sound settings from KDE’s Control panel as expected)(I’m genuinely shocked that I even have sound honestly) I discovered this when I tried to remove pipewire-pulse.
Does this mean that PulseEffects was responsible for the original issue? I’m going to restart the system and restore the subvolume.
System:
Host: MidnightStarSign Kernel: 5.11.1-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 10.2.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X570-PRO v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1407 date: 04/02/2020
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 0
L2 cache: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 103842
Speed: 4324 MHz min/max: 2200/5795 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4324
2: 4324 3: 4324 4: 4298 5: 4324 6: 4324 7: 4325 8: 4320 9: 4325 10: 4325 11: 4325
12: 4324
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: ASRock
driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 0c:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati
unloaded: modesetting,radeon resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
3: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.40.0 5.11.1-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.1.0)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0c:00.1
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 0e:00.4
Device-3: ASUSTek ASUS AI Noise-Cancelling Mic Adapter type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 5-5:4
Device-4: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus ID: 7-1:2
Device-5: Schiit Audio Schiit Modi 3+ type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
bus ID: 7-2:3
Device-6: JMTek LLC. Plugable USB Audio Device type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 3-2:3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.1-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel
port: f000 bus ID: 06:00.0
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 24:4b:fe:5b:08:2a
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 3-5.3:9
Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.69 TiB used: 867 GiB (23.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0
size: 931.51 GiB temp: 45.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0
size: 931.51 GiB temp: 42.9 C
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM015-2E8174 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-4: /dev/sdg type: USB model: N/A size: 29.3 GiB
ID-5: /dev/sdh type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: TransMemory size: 14.92 GiB
ID-6: /dev/sdi type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Gaming Xbox 360 size: 7.48 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 767 GiB used: 613.33 GiB (80.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
mapped: luks-466d5812-64c7-4a28-bcc4-a1a5adfa9450
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 26.1 MiB (5.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 767 GiB used: 613.33 GiB (80.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
mapped: luks-466d5812-64c7-4a28-bcc4-a1a5adfa9450
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 64 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/dm-1
mapped: luks-81b2dc57-06f5-4471-b484-77c3a516f307
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 451 Uptime: 12m Memory: 31.33 GiB used: 6.72 GiB (21.4%) Init: systemd
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1893 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0
inxi: 3.3.01