opened my laptop. tried playing audio files on google drive. didnt work. tried youtube. video played but no audio. went to the PulseAudio volume panel plug-in thingy ( im sorry chat im not very good with computer ■■■■ ). says “establishing connection to pulseaudio. please wait…” for forever and does nothing. I tried looking in the forum before but i uh, lack understanding.
if it helps, here’s what i get when i type these two in the terminal:
inxi -A
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 500 Series Family On-Package High Definition Audio
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
API: ALSA v: k6.18.45-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api
and
systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pulseaudio.{socket,service}
× pulseaudio.socket - Sound System
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: service-start-limit-hit) since Sat 2026-08-29 14:53:02 IST; 30min ago
Duration: 2.000s
Invocation: 1fdce65d9d24498f8b4ab2f3b8c21933
Triggers: ● pulseaudio.service
Listen: /run/user/1001/pulse/native (Stream)
Aug 29 14:53:00 lenbook systemd[1606]: Listening on Sound System.
Aug 29 14:53:02 lenbook systemd[1606]: pulseaudio.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit'.
× pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Sat 2026-08-29 14:53:02 IST; 30min ago
Invocation: e0bf78985b75430fa520301d1fedcb04
TriggeredBy: × pulseaudio.socket
Process: 1987 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1987 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mem peak: 2.7M
CPU: 31ms
Aug 29 14:53:02 lenbook systemd[1606]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Aug 29 14:53:02 lenbook systemd[1606]: pulseaudio.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 29 14:53:02 lenbook systemd[1606]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Aug 29 14:53:02 lenbook systemd[1606]: Failed to start Sound Service.
if i dont fix this ■■■■ soon, i am cooked because i use my laptop for everything to studying to listening to music so uh. help would be greatly appreciated.
Is this a fresh installation? I am asking because the default in a fresh installation should now be pipewire instead of pulseaudio.
You can either way easily switch over by installing manjaro-pipewire, which will pull in all of the necessary packages and prompt you to replace the pulseaudio-related stuff.
There should be no need to reboot. Enabling the sockets with the --now option should normally start the services as needed, and they should be running right away.
i’ll be honest with you i’ve been using -S instead of -Syu 'cause that’s just what i’ve been using since i was a kid and i honestly dont know the difference since it seemed to work?
anyways, ran the command. did the prompts. got this:
[crown@lenbook ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-pipewire
[sudo] password for crown:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: manjaro-pipewire-20231009-1 and manjaro-pulse-20240817-1 are in conflict. Remove manjaro-pulse? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire-20231009-1 and pulseaudio-jack-17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-jack? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire-20231009-1 and pulseaudio-lirc-17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-lirc? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire-20231009-1 and pulseaudio-rtp-17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-rtp? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire-20231009-1 and pulseaudio-zeroconf-17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-zeroconf? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.6.8-1 and pulseaudio-17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio' required by pulseaudio-ctl
do i gotta completely remove pulseaudio for this? (manually)
If you have a hardware volume control, see if it’s turned up far enough.
Depending on what desktop environment you’re using, right-click the volume control widget and see whether you’re using the correct sink. In Plasma, this is called a “profile”. You probably want it set to “Analog Stereo Output”.
(why’s your desktop so beautiful damn. and clean, compared to mine.)
i have xfce. (look, man i didnt get a choice in ts so thats why i know jack ■■■■ about anything lol )
the volume control panel thingy is the only thing for configuring sound and stuff in xfce, i guess? cause i cant find anything else. it’s showing a moving volume meter for audio but actually giving out no audio. and no such options for sinks or profiles either. i would attach a screenshot but i cant.
