Sound Server "hanging" after upgrade

[scotty65]

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  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: wireplumber
    status: active tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active
    with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol

You have both pipewire and pulseaudio active, so you should remove one. The usual recommendation is to keep pipewire. You should install the full manjaro-pipewire metapackage, as that will automatically remove pulseaudio and replace old pulseaudio packages with their pipewire equivalents:

sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-pipewire

This solution worked in another topic 4 days ago:

No sound after update, although devices are shown

The solution was to uninstall manjaro-pulse and install manjaro-pipewire as suggested by @gkraemer . Almost everything works again, but the configuration of my recorder/audio interface’s inputs is more difficult with PipeWire. I didn’t test yet those inputs, only opened them in Reaper. But if there are problems there, I’ll post in another topic. Thank you, @gkraemer and @nikgnomic for your help!!

Details of the manjaro-pipewire package:

pamac info manjaro-pipewire
Name                  : manjaro-pipewire
Version               : 20231009-1
Description           : Manjaro meta package for complete PipeWire support.
URL                   : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire
Licenses              : GPL
Repository            : extra
Installed Size        : 1.6 kB
Groups                : --
Depends On            : gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse
Optional Dependencies : easyeffects: advanced equalizer and effects
                        pipewire-jack: Jack support
                        pipewire-v4l2: V4L2 interceptor
                        pipewire-x11-bell: X11 bell
                        pipewire-zeroconf: Zeroconf support
                        realtime-privileges: Realtime privileges for users
Required By           : --
Optional For          : --
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : manjaro-pulse pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf
Packager              : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Build Date            : Tue 10 Oct 2023 11:27:33
Install Date          : Fri 17 Nov 2023 16:49:01
Install Reason        : Explicitly installed
Validated By          : Signature
Backup files          : --