Hi arnardr, how are you.
Firstly we like to thank arnaudr's suggestion (install wireplumber package and reboot).
After install wireplumber package and reboot (log out and log back in cannot have wireplumber process running)
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~]
└─$ ps -fp $(pgrep wire)
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD
root 141 2 0 08:20 ? I< 0:00 [firewire]
root 143 2 0 08:20 ? I< 0:00 [firewire_ohci]
r42072 846 830 0 08:20 ? S<sl 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire
r42072 849 830 0 08:20 ? S<sl 0:00 /usr/bin/wireplumber
r42072 850 830 0 08:20 ? S<sl 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
Yes, the pipewire-media-session package was uninstalled during wireplumber installation process!
For your other questions (desktop, user account, external sound card):
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~]
└─$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~]
└─$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
XFCE
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~]
└─$ pipewire --version
pipewire
Compiled with libpipewire 0.3.65
Linked with libpipewire 0.3.65
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~]
└─$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
VERSION="2023.1"
VERSION_ID="2023.1"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
ID=kali
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
no, there is not external sound card in my Dell laptop (only internal sound card)
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~/mykali/audio]
└─$ lspci -nnk |grep -A2 Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Latitude D630 [1028:01f9]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
my desktop is XFCE. my login as my account r42072 (non-root)
For running command (apt list '?installed !?automatic' | grep -i pipe), there is NOT any output.
what do you like to check?
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~/mykali/audio]
└─$ dpkg -l pipewire* 1 ⨯
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================================-============-============-=================================>
ii pipewire:amd64 0.3.65-3 amd64 audio and video processing engine>
un pipewire-alsa <none> <none> (no description available)
ii pipewire-bin 0.3.65-3 amd64 PipeWire multimedia server - prog>
rc pipewire-media-session 0.4.2-3 amd64 example session manager for PipeW>
un pipewire-media-session-pulseaudio <none> <none> (no description available)
ii pipewire-pulse 0.3.65-3 amd64 PipeWire PulseAudio daemon
┌──(r42072㉿mykali)-[~/mykali/audio]
└─$ dpkg -l pulseaudio*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===========================-===============-============-====================================>
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 soun>
ii pulseaudio-utils 16.1+dfsg1-2+b1 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudi
$ dpkg -l wireplumber
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=============================================
ii wireplumber 0.4.13-1 amd64 modular session / policy manager for PipeWire
Anyway, thanks again for your great help.
By the way, I would like to add note to update case ID 0008310, but I failed to do it, Finally I just reopen the new report to reply you.
Please close the case 0008310, Louis :-) | 
