Hi guys,
I've been using Zorin OS 17.3 since December 2024 and never had any issues. Things started going wrong when I tried to install PipeWire and pavucontrol on my PC to pair two Bluetooth speakers. Could it be a conflict between PipeWire and PulseAudio? After rebooting, I ended up stuck at the tty1 console. I read another thread that suggested backing up my data and reinstalling Zorin OS from scratch. Does anyone know if there's another solution?
I have an error when I used startx command.
Check whether or not zorin-os-desktop is still installed. For some reason it has three pulseaudio packages set as a dependency in Zorin 17, so changes to the audio system may have unintended consequences. When I tried this in the past, I still got to my desktop somehow, but the zorin-os-desktop package had been removed. (I later found that despite being able to get to my desktop, it was in a bad state.)
Try sudo apt install zorin-os-desktop. If it's already installed, it might be broken, and you could try sudo apt install -f.
You should not use pipewire and pulseaudio at the same time. If you want to use pipewire, disable the services of pulse audio.
systemctl --user --now stop pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
When you remove pulseaudio from your system, it also removes the desktop, so you would have to install the desktop afterwards.
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