Missing audio completely

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All of a sudden, I have no audio. I had it yesterday, gone today. I have no audio controls in Gnome. When I try and check on pipewire, it’s masked (so is wireplumber):

$ sudo systemctl status pipewire.service
○ pipewire.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit pipewire.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)

I didn’t manually mask it. Why would this be?

My config is:

# Enable sound with pipewire.
  sound.enable = false;
  hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
  security.rtkit.enable = true;
  services.pipewire = {
    enable = true;
    alsa.enable = true;
    alsa.support32Bit = true;
    pulse.enable = true;
    # If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
    #jack.enable = true;

    # use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
    # no need to redefine it in your config for now)
    #media-session.enable = true;
    wireplumber.enable = true;

  };

I have audio = false as that’s what I’ve read online when using pipewire. But, I’ve tried false and true with no difference in outcome.

Found this in the journal:

Dec 08 11:37:27 stanton pipewire[1448]: default: can't setup properties: No such file or directory
Dec 08 11:37:27 stanton pipewire[1448]: default: can't setup properties: No such file or directory
Dec 08 11:37:27 stanton pipewire[1448]: default: can't setup properties: No such file or directory
Dec 08 11:37:27 stanton pipewire[1448]: default: can't setup properties: No such file or directory
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You should check the status with --user flag, as pipewire is a user unit:

$ systemctl status pipewire
○ pipewire.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit pipewire.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)
$ systemctl status --user pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/user/pipewire.service; linked-runtime; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /nix/store/qjjxb10vscphf6pf9kshnp7vxzihkksn-user-units/pipewire.service.d
             └─overrides.conf
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-12-05 15:24:54 EET; 3 days ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 130797 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 5 (limit: 35738)
     Memory: 25.7M
        CPU: 4min 37.485s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─130797 /nix/store/1s40qd5g7iza473iqq7vx2c8s3bdlgmy-pipewire-0.3.60/bin/pipewire
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Egg on my face. Config file was put in user directory, completely forgot about. I was trying to fix a static issue I have with an external speaker. Sound is back. Static issue is something I’ll pick back up another day.