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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 :(

Artur Meinild
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  • There is no such version of Ubuntu as 22.1 so a good start is to have accurate info. – David Feb 14 '23 at 13:27
  • lsb_release -a returns No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.10 Release: 22.10 Codename: kinetic – Andy Feb 14 '23 at 13:36
  • Suggest you edit and correct the question and in your other question as well. – David Feb 14 '23 at 13:38
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    Ubuntu 22.10 uses PipeWire as default audio system - maybe look into this? – Artur Meinild Feb 14 '23 at 13:50
  • Hi, yeah, I had to swap over from Pipewire, I couldn't get it to work with anything, switched over to pulseaudio and it was working fine for a couple months until this update. Thanks for input (and for fixing my post) – Andy Feb 14 '23 at 13:51

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