[BUG] Volume issues

[Shardj]

Trying to change my volume via the keyboard resulted in 'ERROR attempt to compare number with nil'. I soon noticed from the top bar's volume button that I don't have an output device selected which is likely the problem. However trying to select the only output device in the list resulted in 'ERROR .config/awesome/src/modules/volume_controller.lua:58: attempt to concatenate a nil value (upvalue 'node')

[Crylia]

Do you have pactl (pulseaudio) installed?

[Shardj]

Yes

[Crylia]

does pactl list sinks work? And if yes, can you please post the output?

[Shardj]

Sink #0
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
        Description: Built-in Audio Analogue Stereo
        Driver: module-alsa-card.c
        Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-right
        Owner Module: 7
        Mute: yes
        Volume: front-left: 0 /   0% / -inf dB,   front-right: 0 /   0% / -inf dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
        Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
        Properties:
                alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
                device.api = "alsa"
                device.class = "sound"
                alsa.class = "generic"
                alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
                alsa.name = "ALC289 Analog"
                alsa.id = "ALC289 Analog"
                alsa.subdevice = "0"
                alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
                alsa.device = "0"
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0x6165298000 irq 204"
                alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
                device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3"
                sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0"
                device.bus = "pci"
                device.vendor.id = "8086"
                device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
                device.product.id = "43c8"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "front:0"
                device.buffering.buffer_size = "384000"
                device.buffering.fragment_size = "192000"
                device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
                device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
                device.profile.description = "Analogue Stereo"
                device.description = "Built-in Audio Analogue Stereo"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        Ports:
                analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority: 10000)
                analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority: 9900, not available)
        Active Port: analog-output-speaker
        Formats:
                pcm

[Crylia]

It seems like your audio controller doesn't report a node.name. This is really weird and I wonder if it also happens to headphones?
I am probably going to switch to lgi and use the dbus instead of pactl so I won't spend more time fixing this.

Can you post what pactl get-default-sink does? with no node.name I'm wondering what it reports

[Shardj]

Just spits out "No valid command specified."

[Crylia]

Just spits out "No valid command specified."

I think your pactl is broken or something? For me it reports the current sink.

[Shardj]

No, it works fine. Probably just different versions. pactl info gets me the default just fine:

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 33
Server Protocol Version: 33
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 215
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: george
Host Name: george-laptop
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 13.99.1
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Cookie: e8f2:b78c

[Shardj]

Yeah just checked, the get-default-sink command is part of pulseaudio v15+ and I'm on v13.99.1

[Crylia]

Does it work once you update?

[Shardj]

13.99.1 is the latest PPA for pulse audio on ubuntu. I don't want to go and mess around with trying to upgrade it myself.

[Crylia]

I guess pulseaudio-utils or pipewire-pulse uses a higher version then because I'm running my stock repos from 22.04 Pop!_OS

[Shardj]

Can you use this snippet instead or add in a check for the get-default command failing and use this if so?

pactl info | perl -n -e'/Default Sink: (.+)\s/ && print $1'