Sound works for a bit, then stops (22.11)

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I’ve got a strange issue since upgrading to 22.11 where my sound will work when I first log in, and then after some time, it simply stops working.

This happens with both pipewire and pulseaudio setups. My current config is back to pipewire, and looks like:

  hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
  security.rtkit.enable = true;
  services.pipewire = {
    enable = true;
    alsa.enable = true;
    alsa.support32Bit = true;
    pulse.enable = true;
    # jack.enable = true
  };

Sound works again any time I log out and log back in or restart my computer, and then at some point is just stops working. I don’t see anything in journalctl that looks suspicious around the time that the sound cuts out. My dmesg output looks like this:

❯ dmesg | grep -i audio
[    0.142317] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio)
[    9.830431] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040380
[    9.831423] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, using SOF driver
[    9.831937] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040380
[    9.832011] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    9.838508] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: use msi interrupt mode
[    9.880853] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: hda codecs found, mask 5
[    9.880858] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: using HDA machine driver skl_hda_dsp_generic now
[    9.880861] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: DMICs detected in NHLT tables: 4
[    9.897746] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware info: version 2:2:0-57864
[    9.897749] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:18:0
[    9.897750] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: warn: FW ABI is more recent than kernel
[    9.897754] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: unknown sof_ext_man header type 3 size 0x30
[    9.991570] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware info: version 2:2:0-57864
[    9.991574] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Firmware: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:18:0
[    9.991576] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: warn: FW ABI is more recent than kernel
[   10.015598] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: Topology: ABI 3:22:1 Kernel ABI 3:18:0
[   10.015602] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: warn: topology ABI is more recent than kernel
[   10.059548] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: Parent card not yet available, widget card binding deferred
[   10.122772] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: autoconfig for ALC287: line_outs=2 (0x14/0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[   10.122777] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   10.122778] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   10.122779] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   10.122780] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:    inputs:
[   10.122781] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:      Mic=0x19
[   10.190643] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: ASoC: sink widget AIF1TX overwritten
[   10.190651] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: ASoC: source widget AIF1RX overwritten

lspci output:

❯ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)

Switching back to my 20.05 config resolves the issue.

I’d really appreciate any help investigating!

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Some sleuthing points to users from other distros having issues with similar errors, apparently it’s a kernel module bug and fixed in more recent kernels.

What kernel version are you on? I believe 22.11 still defaults to 5.15, the posts I’ve seen report it being fixed a few patches into 6.0.x.

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Great find! I am indeed on 5.15.86. I’ll keep booting into my older config for now, then, and then try updating again in a bit. Would be curious to know if anyone has any other workarounds, also.

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Some related threads from the Manjaro forums:

I’m going to give the 6.0 kernel a shot. Haven’t done this with NixOS before, but it seems relatively straightforward from the instructions here: Linux kernel - NixOS Wiki

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Confirmed what folks found in the Manjaro threads: upgrading to the 6.x series kernel seems to resolve the issue. I at least haven’t seen any other negative effects from the upgrade.

I added this line to my config:

  boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;

And that got me up to 6.1.2

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