Sound issues after zypper dup

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2 minor issues after today’s zypper dup:

  • sound disappeared in plasma applet
  • strange audio devices like HD-Audio Generic... appeared in multimedia applications, so it become unclear where is HDMI device and where is headset, etc.

Solved quickly, however it may help somebody:

  1. st Issue as usual solved by

    sudo systemctl --user --global unmask pipewire-pulse.socket pipewire-pulse.service && \
systemctl --user enable --now pipewire pipewire-pulse

    not sure when it will be fixed automatically by dup post-update scripts. Reported multiple times.

  2. nd One solved by removing pipewire-alsa and pipewire-alsa-32bit packages - not clear why zypper dup installed them?! Then restarted PC, so natural devices names are back.

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LT-B:~ # rpm -q --whatrecommends pipewire-alsa
pipewire-pulseaudio-1.2.7-1.4.x86_64
LT-B:~ #

You may try:

zypper dup --no-recommends

next time.

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yep, this works from the console. tw-updater-plasmoid does not have this option. Probably need to ask @alucardx to add it. Thanks!

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