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Today morning I did an upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10. However, after the upgrade I've noticed that there is no audio output from my device. I did a reboot and then the internet stopped working. However, there was an additional device called dummy network in nmcli device which I removed to get the internet back and running.

To fix audio, whenever I visited sound settings there were no output devices except there was only an option named dummy output.

I thought it would be something with pulse audio, hence I used systemctl --user start pulseaudio to enable sound. But the problem is, I have to do it manually after each reboot.

Can somebody help me to get pulseaudio to start automatically upon startup?

Output for systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service;

○ pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; enabled; preset:>
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ○ pulseaudio.socket
Arjun K Shibu
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I've found the issue.

According to a new article by fosshub, under features of the new Ubuntu 22.10 it states that; Pipewire is introduced as the default audio server

Hence pulseaudio was replaced by pipewire after the upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10.

So I simply removed pipewire using;

sudo apt remove pipewire

And then I enabled both pulseaudio.service and pulseaudio.socket using

systemctl --user --now enable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket

In my case it was already enabled. I just had to start it, to start pulse audio

systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service
systemctl --user start pulseaudio.socket

or

pulseaudio --start

Now it automatically starts after log in.

Arjun K Shibu
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