Audio Qube does not work when based on Debian testing

[a-barinov]

Qubes OS release

Qubes OS 4.1

Brief summary

Audio VM based on debian-11-minimal works properly, but when debian is upgraded to testing branch. Qubes trying to play sound show no error but no sound gets played.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create Audio VM based on debian-11-minimal
2. Check that sound works in connected qubes
3. Change debian apt source to tesing and qubes apt source to bullseye-testing. In my case source list looks like this:

deb http://2s4yqjx5ul6okpp3f2gaunr2syex5jgbfpfvhxxbbjwnrsvbk5v3qbid.onion/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.qubesosfasa4zl44o4tws22di6kepyzfeqv3tg4e3ztknltfxqrymdad.onion/r4.1/vm bookworm-testing main

4. Update Debian
5. Connected qubes now produce deafening silence. Sound can be played directly in Audio VM though.

Expected behavior

Sound should work bot on debian stable and testing

Actual behavior

Sound does not work. There is a simple (but not clean) fix available though. Instead of moving qubes debian repo to bookworm-testing you can keep it at bullseye like this:

deb http://2s4yqjx5ul6okpp3f2gaunr2syex5jgbfpfvhxxbbjwnrsvbk5v3qbid.onion/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.qubesosfasa4zl44o4tws22di6kepyzfeqv3tg4e3ztknltfxqrymdad.onion/r4.1/vm bullseye main

You will then need to hold some packages at their current versions, but sound will work.

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package gui-agent-linux has been pushed to the r4.1 testing repository for the CentOS centos-stream8 template.
To test this update, please install it with the following command:

sudo yum update --enablerepo=qubes-vm-r4.1-current-testing

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The component gui-agent-linux (including package pulseaudio-qubes-4.1.27-1.fc32) has been pushed to the r4.1 testing repository for dom0.
To test this update, please install it with the following command:

sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-current-testing

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package qubes-gui-agent_4.1.27-1 has been pushed to the r4.1 testing repository for the Debian template.
To test this update, first enable the testing repository in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-*.list by uncommenting the line containing buster-testing (or appropriate equivalent for your template version), then use the standard update command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package gui-agent-linux has been pushed to the r4.1 stable repository for the CentOS centos-stream8 template.
To install this update, please use the standard update command:

sudo yum update

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package qubes-gui-agent_4.1.27-1+deb10u1 has been pushed to the r4.1 stable repository for the Debian template.
To install this update, please use the standard update command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The component gui-agent-linux (including package pulseaudio-qubes-4.1.27-1.fc32) has been pushed to the r4.1 stable repository for dom0.
To install this update, please use the standard update command:

sudo qubes-dom0-update

Or update dom0 via Qubes Manager.

Changes included in this update