I recently made the upgrade to ubuntu 22.10. Following this update I can no longer use bluetooth to connect audio devices as pulseaudio can no longer identify them.
I have tried solutions from the following threads but none of these have worked.
bluetooth headset connects but not showing in sound settings
Bluetooth speaker connected but not listed in sound output
when loading module-bluetooth discover with sudo the following error is returned
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
Without Sudo the error is
Failure: Module initialization failed
When I unload the module and reload it, I don't get these errors, but my bluetooth speaker still doesn't show up on pulseaudio.
Here is some more information that may be relevant.
Trying to load alsamixer returns the following
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:337:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_ctl_pipewire.so (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pipewire.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
cannot open mixer: No such device or address
However, following this thread, I can open the mixer
Alsamixer returns "cannot open mixer: No such file or directory"
pacmd list-sinks returns
1 sink(s) available.
* index: 0
name: <auto_null>
driver: <module-null-sink.c>
flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
state: IDLE
suspend cause: (none)
priority: 1000
volume: front-left: 43252 / 66% / -10.83 dB, front-right: 43252 / 66% / -10.83 dB
balance 0.00
base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
volume steps: 65537
muted: no
current latency: 31.58 ms
max request: 6 KiB
max rewind: 6 KiB
monitor source: 0
sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
channel map: front-left,front-right
Stereo
used by: 0
linked by: 1
configured latency: 40.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 2000.00 ms
module: 15
properties:
device.description = "Dummy Output"
device.class = "abstract"
device.icon_name = "audio-card"
in case you are wondering about any missing packages here is dpkg -l | grep pulse
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.20.3-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package)
ii libcanberra-pulse:amd64 0.30-10ubuntu1 amd64 PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
ii libpulse-dev:amd64 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 amd64 PulseAudio client development headers and libraries
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii libpulse0:amd64 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libpulse0:i386 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libpulsedsp:amd64 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 amd64 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii pipewire-pulse 0.3.58-2ubuntu1 amd64 PipeWire PulseAudio daemon
ii pulseaudio 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 amd64 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
Would appreciate any insight, tried reinstallng pulseaudio, but I am really cautious of further modifications as broken audio and bluetooth has been the sole cause of 5 reinstalls in less than 6 months. If I cant get it working consistently I am going to have to switch back to windows :(
