Pulseaudio not avaliable

[mackowiakp]

After upgrading kernel to version 6.5 sometimes (rarely) pulseaudio does not start after hard reboot.
The volume icon is grayed out and a message is displayed that no audio device is available.
I am attaching the logs from the boot PC after which this situation occurs.
What is wrong? Any advise?

[mrmazda]

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# egrep 'ulse|xdg|aile' journal.log | wc -l
82
#

Pulseaudio and pipewire among them suggest places to look.

Make a note of what you get from the following when all is good:

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rpm -qa | egrep 'alsa|arts|audio|demul|gstr|jack|lib64de2|lib64x26|mix|mpv|pavu|puls|sof-|sound|vlc|wire|xdg'|sort
alsactl info
wpctl status
pw-cli list-objects Device
pw-cli list-objects Node
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks
aplay -lL
systemctl --global --user status pipewire.{service,socket}
systemctl --global --user status pipewire-pulse.{service,socket}
systemctl --global --user status pulseaudio.{service,socket}
systemctl --global --user status wireplumber

When you repeat when pulseaudio is not available, what differs?

[Germ]

Mageia does not use dpkg.

dpkg is used on debian and debian based distros.

[isadora]

I copied from the wrong file (since fixed). The strings to search are basically the same using rpm -qa.

[morgano]

After upgrading kernel to version 6.5

1) Since your post there are new kernels in updates: 6.5.13 desktop/server as well as linus.
Does that work better?

2) Does it help to switch to Pipewire?
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Pipewire

[Germ]

I copied from the wrong file (since fixed)....

Thanks.

[mackowiakp]

1) Since your post there are new kernels in updates: 6.5.13 desktop/server as well as linus.
Does that work better?

Does not work better. Still sometimes after reboot pulseaudio is not available but after several minutes it begins to be available.
Mystery...

[Germ]

Did you try switching to pipewire as morgano suggested?

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Pipewire

[mackowiakp]

Will try if accrues next time