Post #2262614

2026-03-12 16:17 UTC

Check the groups the working user is included in, and make sure the non-working user is in those same groups. See if anything there. Edit: Oh, you know what. I think this is probably Pipewire not starting for multiple users when multiple are logged in. On the non-working user, you need to start a unique Pipewire session for that user, because the other working user's session can't be shared by default.

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@Jjoiq@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 16:51

Session rings a bell for me this https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/674496/how-to-reset-pipewire-settings#674499 worked

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@oeuf@slrpnk.net 2026-03-12 16:45

No luck so far. When I use 'groups username' in the terminal to compare the groups of both users they are exactly the same. Interestingly neither show 'audio' or 'video' as a group that they're in - both users are only in 'username' and 'users'. Yet both are able to play video, and only one gets audio along with it... The behaviour is the same from a cold boot with only one user logged in as it is when there are two users logged in.

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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 22:36

If you're not super up on your systemd commands, use systemctl --user (no sudo): systemctl --user status pipewire

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