No sound after upgrade to Fedora Linux 35

Bugzilla: #2016253

In some cases, the new WirePlumber service may not be properly configured to start automatically after an upgrade. WirePlumber is a session manager for PipeWire, the modern audio subsystem we made the default starting with Fedora 34. You can read those links for details, but the short version is “this needs to be running for sound to work”. The upgrade process should take care of this, and we expect this to be true for almost everyone.

If your system has now sound after upgrade, WirePlumber probably didn’t get enabled properly. Run the following command AS YOUR REGULAR USER from a terminal (not as root or with sudo), and everything should start working:

systemctl --user enable --now wireplumber

Note: This is a test topic, meant to try out some ideas for what Common Issues posts might look like on Ask Fedora.

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