Audio in invalid state

Issues & Assistance
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i lost all audio and cant get it back. I've had intermitten audio issues from day 1 but usually a reboot would fix. this time when i try a test tone it gives the following error (see pic)

lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 01)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant
(rev 01)
0000:00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation GNA Scoring Accelerator module (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM (rev 20)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface (rev 20)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #8 (rev 20)
0000:00:1d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation RST VMD Managed Controller
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Control
ler (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 20)
0000:01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adap
ter
10000:e0:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev 20)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN770 / PC SN740 256GB / PC SN560 (DRAM-le
ss) NVMe SSD (rev 01)

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System:
  Kernel: 6.4.11-zen2-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc
    available: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=17d9134e-705b-401f-8855-87098b482bdf rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet quiet
    rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
    resume=UUID=4340d6ff-bc5f-4b71-8031-81bba7025333 loglevel=3 ibt=off
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.7 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-dy2xxx v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 87FE v: 57.20 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.21 date: 03/21/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 39.7/41.0 Wh (96.7%) volts: 12.9 min: 11.4
    model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: full cycles: 16
CPU:
  Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11
    level: v4 note: check built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8C (140) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0xAC
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 320 KiB
    desc: d-4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 5 MiB desc: 4x1.2 MiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1559 high: 2993 min/max: 400/4200 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 1252 2: 2257 3: 587 4: 1262 5: 2473 6: 402 7: 2993 8: 1251
    bogomips: 38707
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,
    DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b6f1 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0991 built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.6 renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
    bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.4.11-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss type: oss-emulator
    tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.77 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: off 2: wireplumber
    status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8821ce port: 3000 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:c821 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1
    mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 0bda:b00e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2 lmp-v: 8 status:
    discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c010c
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd v: 0.6 port: N/A
    bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1018.04 GiB used: 432.52 GiB (42.5%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev
/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN770 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD
    serial: <filter> fw-rev: 731100WD temp: 37.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: General USB Flash Disk size: 57.62 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1100 scheme: GPT
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 model: General USB Flash Disk size: 28.91 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1100 scheme: GPT
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 39.06 GiB size: 39.06 GiB (100.00%) used: 17.81 GiB (45.6%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1000 MiB size: 998 MiB (99.80%) used: 147.3 MiB (14.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 858.4 GiB size: 858.4 GiB (100.00%) used: 405.7 GiB (47.3%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 39.06 GiB size: 39.06 GiB (100.00%) used: 17.81 GiB (45.6%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 39.06 GiB size: 39.06 GiB (100.00%) used: 17.81 GiB (45.6%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.27 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 comp: zstd
    avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 8 dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 33.07 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Processes: 281 Uptime: 23m wakeups: 2278 Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.27 GiB
  used: 4.17 GiB (27.3%) Init: systemd v: 254 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 13.2.1 Packages: 1891 pm: pacman pkgs: 1877 libs: 564 tools: octopi,pamac,paru,trizen
  pm: flatpak pkgs: 14 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.16-release inxi: 3.3.29
Garuda (2.6.16-1):
  System install date:     2023-08-17
  Last full system update: 2023-08-22 ↻
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
  Windows dual boot:       Probably (Run as root to verify)
  Failed units:            
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audio

2

It seems for some reason your pipewire session manager, wireplumber is not active. Try the following commands to enable and restart it,

systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.socket pipewire-pulse.socket wireplumber.service

systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.service

systemctl restart --user pipewire-pulse.socket pipewire.socket wireplumber.service

If this does not help try reinstalling pipewire following this post

If neither of these work then check,

groups $USER

does not output audio or rtkit and that it does output realtime. In simple terms ensure you are a part of realtime group and that you are not a part of audio or rtkit groups.

Also check,

cat /etc/security/limits.d/99-realtime-privileges.conf

returns,

@realtime - rtprio 98
@realtime - memlock unlimited
@realtime - nice -11

Finally also try to change kernels if none helps,

sudo pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers

and then from grub advanced menu select the lts kernel to boot into.

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hey try with

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this kernel if not work

try with pulse audio once

4

I experience the same issue. Interestingly, it did not occur directly after an update. I unplugged my notebook from the power plug, and heard (from the bluetooth speaker) a jingle, that KDE always does when I unplug the power source.

After that, sound was just gone.

System:
Kernel: 6.4.11-zen2-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=fdd9180e-818d-4cd6-8f82-b52c0fbaca7e rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet quiet rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3
ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.7 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 820 G3 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 807C v: KBC Version 85.61 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: HP v: N75 Ver. 01.05 date: 03/22/2016
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.8 Wh (95.1%) condition: 36.6/36.6 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.9 min: 11.4 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-6200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake
gen: core 6 level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 900 high: 901 min/max: 400/2800 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 901 2: 901 3: 900 4: 900
bogomips: 19200
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:1916 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP HD Camera
driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 05c8:0383 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x0498 built: 2015 res: 1366x768 hz: 60
dpi: 125 gamma: 1.2 size: 277x156mm (10.91x6.14") diag: 318mm (12.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL
GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_soc_avs
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.4.11-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.77 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:1570 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24f3 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-7:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
lmp-v: 8 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c010c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 894.26 GiB used: 9.57 GiB (1.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Patriot model: M.2 P310 480GB
size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: EDFM90.0 temp: 33.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G
size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1103 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 446.83 GiB size: 446.83 GiB (100.00%)
used: 9.56 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 446.83 GiB size: 446.83 GiB (100.00%)
used: 9.56 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 446.83 GiB size: 446.83 GiB (100.00%)
used: 9.56 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 446.83 GiB size: 446.83 GiB (100.00%)
used: 9.56 GiB (2.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.42 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 4 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C pch: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 213 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 2 Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est.
available: 7.42 GiB used: 2.86 GiB (38.5%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages:
pm: pacman pkgs: 1182 libs: 326 tools: octopi,paru Shell: fish v: 3.6.1
default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.29
Garuda (2.6.16-1):
System install date:     2023-08-19
Last full system update: 2023-08-22
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Failed units:

I tried already everything down to the kernel swap, will reboot now to see if that helps.

So, I rebooted into the LTS kernel now, nothing changed. I also enabled ALSA support, as it helped someone else and this didnt help either.

I also booted into a 1-2 week old snapshot, same issue there.
What can cause this, that survives a snapshot?

Any ideas?

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I have absolutely no idea why, and it works again. I literally did nothing else other than surfing the web for a few hours.

I did not update, reboot, or change anything about the system.
I just decided to play audio again, seemingly out of the nowhere.

6

thank you. will try it when i get home

7

thanks. I'll try it if the first suggestion doesnt work

8

thank you. this worked but i have really bad static. like nails on a chalkboard sound.

9

Have you confirmed these:

If these values are working as intended and you have indeed reinstalled pipewire then,

Try to use the lts kernel as suggested. The current zen kernel has too many bugs and moving to lts resolved a lot of them for me one of which was the audio static you mentioned.

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