I have the same issue after doing an dist-upgrade, same kernel as derp, pipewire is running via ps. Pulseaudio was running successfully before the upgrade, I was on at least a year old version.

Duplicate of 0008195, 0008258 and/or 0008246?

Please paste the output of the command: « dpkg -l | grep -E 'blue[tz]|pipewire|wireplumber|pulse' ». That will help to make sure that all the required packages are installed.

user988098217490: Please paste the output of « ps -fp $(pgrep wire) » (as did the OP above). That will help to confirm that the right services are running.

derpmerp111: I see in your screenshot that you're root. Did you login as root? If so, please try to login as the unprivileged user, and check whether sound works.

Apart from that, feel free to provide more details: which desktop do you use (XFCE, GNOME, KDE) ? Do you run Kali in a VM, or baremetal ? Also please confirm that we're talking about sound over speakers or wired headset, and that there's no bluetooth device in this story. Thanks!

@arnaudr

└─$ dpkg -l | grep -E 'blue[tz]|pipewire|wireplumber|pulse'
ii  blueman                                        2.3.5-2+b1                          amd64        Graphical bluetooth manager
ii  bluez                                          5.66-1+kali1                        amd64        Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii  bluez-firmware                                 1.2-9                               all          Firmware for Bluetooth devices
ii  bluez-hcidump                                  5.66-1+kali1                        amd64        Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets
ii  bluez-obexd                                    5.66-1+kali1                        amd64        bluez obex daemon
ii  kismet-capture-linux-bluetooth                 2022.08.R1-0kali3                   amd64        Kismet Linux Bluetooth capture helper
ii  libbluetooth3:amd64                            5.66-1+kali1                        amd64        Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0:amd64                        0.3.65-3                            amd64        libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server
ii  libpipewire-0.3-common                         0.3.65-3                            all          libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - common files
ii  libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64                  0.3.65-3                            amd64        libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - modules
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64                  16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                     amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64                                16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                     amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:amd64                              16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                     amd64        PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  libspa-0.2-bluetooth:amd64                     0.3.65-3                            amd64        libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - bluetooth plugins
ii  pipewire:amd64                                 0.3.65-3                            amd64        audio and video processing engine multimedia server
ii  pipewire-bin                                   0.3.65-3                            amd64        PipeWire multimedia server - programs
ii  pipewire-media-session                         0.4.2-3                             amd64        example session manager for PipeWire
ii  pipewire-pulse                                 0.3.65-3                            amd64        PipeWire PulseAudio daemon
ii  pulseaudio                                     16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                     amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth                    16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                     amd64        Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils                               16.1+dfsg1-2+b1                     amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
ii  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64                  0.4.5-1                             amd64        Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio

└─$ ps -fp $(pgrep wire)
UID          PID    PPID  C STIME TTY      STAT   TIME CMD
myusername       1427    1411  0 21:23 ?        S<sl   0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire
myusername       1428    1411  0 21:23 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
myusername       1429    1411  0 21:23 ?        S<sl   0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Running i3, Baremetal, Headphones do not work, Speakers do not work, No bluetooth devices in use.

Thanks for feedback, can you please also run this command: « apt list '?installed !?automatic' | grep pipe » ? THanks!

Thank you for the help, output below

└─$ apt list '?installed !?automatic' | grep pipe

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

So I ran instead

└─$ apt list '?installed !?automatic' > output; grep pipe output; echo "============ tailing to show file has content from apt list command\n"; tail -n4 output

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

============ tailing to show file has content from apt list command

zlib1g/kali-rolling,now 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 amd64 [installed]
zsh-autosuggestions/kali-rolling,now 0.7.0-1 all [installed]
zsh-syntax-highlighting/kali-rolling,now 0.7.1-2 all [installed]
zsh/kali-rolling,now 5.9-4+b1 amd64 [installed]

It appears the grep would not have matched anything from the apt list command.

Which I guess is a bit odd since that should have shown some of the pipewire installed packages.

Heya! So this command « apt list '?installed !?automatic' » is about listing the packages that were installed MANUALLY. I wanted to know if you installed the package pipewire-media-session manually, because I'm trying to understand why this package is still installed on your system, and wireplumber is not installed. I think that's what causes the sound issue.

If you get no output when running the command above, it means you didn't manually install any package with 'pipe' in the name. And that's, well, pretty normal. To clarify: the pipewire packages that are on your system were not installed manually, they were installed because they are dependencies of other packages.

But I'm still left wondering why wireplumber was not installed when you upgrade... Do you remember if you run "apt upgrade" or "apt full-upgrade", by any chance? (you should always run "apt full-upgrade" BTW, "apt upgrade" is not really the right command to update a system, I know it's confusing...)

Anyway, end of the explanations. What's next? I might have fixed it via the latest version of the metapackage kali-desktop-xfce.

Please upgrade your system again « apt update && apt full-upgrade ». Pay attention to the output before hitting Enter. You should see that pipewire-media-session will be removed, wireplumber will be installed, and kali-desktop-xfce (among many other packages) will be upgraded. Is it the case? If so, confirm, lets the system upgrade, then log out and log back in. Does sound work now? If not, try a full restart. Does the sound work?

Thanks very much for following up so far and helping to troubleshoot the issue. This is much appreciated!

kalilinux

I ran apt upgrade instead of apt full-upgrade, and thank you for that pointer I have been doing it wrong all along.

I will try your recommendations now.

apt full-upgrade

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  pipewire-media-session
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libwireplumber-0.4-0 linux-headers-6.1.0-kali9-amd64 linux-headers-6.1.0-kali9-common linux-image-6.1.0-kali9-amd64 wireplumber
The following packages have been kept back:
  kali-desktop-xfce

Interesting to see the metapackage you mention showing up as being kept back, not exactly sure why that would happen. Probably a lack of understanding of apt on my part :)

Will report back after install completes and I re-login.

Logging out and logging back in did not get sound to work,

but a full reboot did!

Thank you for the patience and detailed advice. Now I can listen to Lofi again haha.

Interesting to see the metapackage you mention showing up as being kept back

So indeed, this "kali-desktop-xfce has been kept back" issue was reported yesterday, and I think I fixed it. But at the time you tested it, the latest package was not available in the repo yet.

If you try again to run « sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -V » (note the -V for verbose, it will show package versions), it should now upgrade the package kali-desktop-xfce to 2023.2.11. No more « kept back ».

Many many thanks for following up until the end user988098217490, whoever you are :D It really helped a lot. This transition from pulseaudio to pipewire was more tricky than it seemed, but I think now we solved all the issues.

I'm closing the ticket. Thanks again for your help!

BTW: if kali-desktop-xfce is still "held back" with version 2023.2.11, then you can try « sudo apt install kali-desktop-xfce ». By asking explicitly to upgrade this package (yes, 'apt install' will also upgrade packages if they are already installed), apt will try harder to propose a solution. Watch out for the output thought, if apt wants to remove a ton of packages, don't hit Enter...