Bug 430939

Summary:	Neon 20.04: Bug in Pipewire Package, discrepancy between pipewire and pipewire-bin
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	Gunter Ohrner <mails.bugs.kde.org-2025-1>
Component:	Packages User Edition	Assignee:	Neon Bugs <neon-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	jr, leviatan1, neon-bugs-null, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Gunter Ohrner 2020-12-29 12:37:00 UTC

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Boot your system
2. Check the systemd logs using journalctl

OBSERVED RESULT

Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2288]: pipewire-pulse.service: Failed to execute command: No such file or directory
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2288]: pipewire-pulse.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse: No such file or direc>
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: pipewire-pulse.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: pipewire-pulse.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum rtkit-daemon[1851]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum rtkit-daemon[1851]: Successfully made thread 2294 of process 2171 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum rtkit-daemon[1851]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: pipewire-pulse.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: pipewire-pulse.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: pipewire-pulse.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: Failed to start PipeWire PulseAudio.
Dez 29 13:17:46 Zweiblum systemd[2030]: pipewire-pulse.socket: Failed with result 'service-start-limit-hit'.


EXPECTED RESULT
The system should either not attempt to start pipewire-pulse, or should actually exist.

The "pipewire" package contains /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service which references /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
This binary is not contained in any actual package (according to apt-file search) though.

So either /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse should be provided, or /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service should not be provided, or should reference the correct binary.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon 20.04
(available in About System)

KDE Frameworks 5.77.0
Qt 5.15.2 (kompiliert gegen 5.15.2)
Das xcb Fenstersystem

Comment 1 Carlos De Maine 2025-09-20 09:36:01 UTC

Thank you for your bug report! 
However this bug report was created/provided previous to 01/01/2023 and also has not received any updates since  before 01/01/2025. 
Unfortunately KDE neon no longer provides updates for anything older than noble 24.04 based edition's.
Please upgrade to KDE neon noble and if you can reproduce the issue after upgrading to an active version, feel free to re-open this bug report.
Thanks for understanding!