pavucontrol suddenly started to fail to enumerate the sound cards
I updated my Arch laptop's packages, and this is what happens now:
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-03-19 01:27:15 EET; 1min 53s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
Main PID: 1124 (pipewire-pulse)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
└─1124 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
Mar 19 01:27:15 herkkutatti systemd[1026]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Mar 19 01:27:25 herkkutatti pipewire-pulse[1124]: pulse-server 0x55bbed10c140: [PulseAudio Volume Control] ERROR command:87 (EXTENSION) tag:12 error:19 (Operation not supported)
Mar 19 01:27:25 herkkutatti pipewire-pulse[1124]: pulse-server 0x55bbed10c140: [PulseAudio Volume Control] ERROR command:87 (EXTENSION) tag:13 error:19 (Operation not supported)
Mar 19 01:27:25 herkkutatti pipewire-pulse[1124]: pulse-server 0x55bbed10c140: [PulseAudio Volume Control] ERROR command:87 (EXTENSION) tag:14 error:19 (Operation not supported)
Mar 19 01:27:25 herkkutatti pipewire-pulse[1124]: pulse-server 0x55bbed10c140: [PulseAudio Volume Control] ERROR command:87 (EXTENSION) tag:15 error:19 (Operation not supported)
Also pavucontrol shows zero cards (all cards are detected by the kernel and shown in /proc/asound/cards).
Version info from pacman:
pipewire 1:0.3.24-1
pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.24-1
pipewire-jack 1:0.3.24-1
pipewire-jack-dropin 3-1
pipewire-media-session 1:0.3.24-1
pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.24-1