No sound in Fedora 36 on fresh install/upgrade from F34 (also frozen/no video in Firefox/Chrome)

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#1

Hi,

I have no sound through the Broadwell rt286 card/speakers on an HP Spectre x360 13-4102dx laptop with a fresh instance of F36. I noticed this first as a problem that video playback doesn’t work on Firefox and Chrome browsers (e.g. playing any YouTube video just freezes, spinning and then finally saying “If playback doesn’t begin shortly, try restarting your device”, and there is no sound).

I tried rebooting into older kernels, like the last one I had in F34, but no change.

Other symptoms and oddities:

  • sound works through Bluetooth, but not through speakers via Broadwell card
  • “aplay anyfile.mp3” from a command line shell just hangs, no sound plays
  • kcmshell5 kcm_pulseaudio GUI has a section that says “Inactive cards: Built-in Audio” with the “Profile” dropdown set to “Off”, and no other choices/can’t change it (could this be the clue?)

Pipewire status:

$ systemctl --user status pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service.d
└─00-uresourced.conf
Active: active (running) since Sun 2022-06-19 20:56:03 EDT; 33min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 2259 (pipewire)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 9367)
Memory: 2.6M
CPU: 58ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─ 2259 /usr/bin/pipewire

Jun 19 20:56:03 localhost.localdomain systemd[1989]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.

Searching system logs shows this:

[root@localhost tlp]# journalctl | egrep -i “audio|sound”
Jun 19 16:52:03 localhost.localdomain kernel: ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio)
Jun 19 20:52:09 localhost.localdomain kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
Jun 19 20:52:09 localhost.localdomain kernel: input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input24
Jun 19 20:52:09 localhost.localdomain kernel: input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input25
Jun 19 20:52:09 localhost.localdomain kernel: input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input26
Jun 19 20:52:09 localhost.localdomain kernel: input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input27
Jun 19 20:52:09 localhost.localdomain kernel: input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=10 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input28
Jun 19 20:52:09 localhost.localdomain kernel: input: broadwell-rt286 Headset as /devices/platform/broadwell-audio/sound/card1/input29
Jun 19 20:52:11 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: alsa-restore.service - Save/Restore Sound Card State was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionPathExists=!/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf).
Jun 19 20:52:11 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started alsa-state.service - Manage Sound Card State (restore and store).
Jun 19 20:52:11 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target sound.target - Sound Card.
Jun 19 20:56:01 localhost.localdomain systemd[1989]: Listening on pulseaudio.socket - Sound System.
Jun 19 20:56:01 localhost.localdomain systemd[1989]: Starting pulseaudio.service - Sound Service…
Jun 19 20:56:01 localhost.localdomain rtkit-daemon[2008]: Successfully made thread 1998 of process 1998 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by ‘1000’ high priority at nice level -11.
Jun 19 20:56:02 localhost.localdomain rtkit-daemon[2008]: Successfully made thread 2031 of process 1998 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by ‘1000’ RT at priority 5.
Jun 19 20:56:02 localhost.localdomain rtkit-daemon[2008]: Successfully made thread 2034 of process 1998 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by ‘1000’ RT at priority 5.
Jun 19 20:56:02 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1998]: stat(’/etc/pulse/default.pa.d’): No such file or directory
Jun 19 20:56:02 localhost.localdomain systemd[1989]: Started pulseaudio.service - Sound Service.
Jun 19 20:56:02 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1998]: Failed to register as a handsfree audio agent with ofono: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Jun 19 21:21:00 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1998]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.
Jun 19 21:21:00 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1998]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.
Jun 19 21:21:00 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1998]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.

Any help or any other logs I can provide?

Many thanks,
TL

#2

I have similar problem on F36. It’s almost a week now, but what I noticed is that when my audio output stops working, I switch to line in (headphones), then test the sound in settings and when I switch back to the default output which I’m using (speaker). Then it works for some time, but after few minutes is back to not working. I don’t know how to best describe it but, it looks like it somehow puts audio output to sleep if not used for longer time.

And I can confirm the issue with videos. First I thought that is related to Vivaldi as it tends to break after update, but then I tried Firefox and had the same issue - not playing videos, freezing / spinning.

Does anyone have solution?

#3

For the videos, can you take a look at: Firefox stopped playing videos - #31 by kwizart

Thanks

#4

Hi – thanks all for replying, for video yes I had already tried the “dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing” (I didn’t have ffmpeg-free so it didn’t do anything), and from other searches I also tried “dnf swap --allowerasing pipewire-pulseaudio pulseaudio”, and “dnf remove libswscale-free libavcodec-free”… all to no avail.

One detail I seem to remember from F34, I think pipewire didn’t work on F34 for me either so I believe I removed it via reinstalling pulse audio (with “dnf swap --allowerasing pipewire-pulseaudio pulseaudio”). Perhaps those settings carried over when I upgraded F34 directly to F36, and so now neither pulse audio nor pipewire work, perhaps?

If so, is there a command to reswap these, or something? I don’t know enough to be able to tell even which one is running, or what their respective statuses are (except for the pipewire status I posted), or if this is even the problem.

Thanks,
TL