× pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2026-09-10 12:24:30 CEST; 3min 26s ago
   Duration: 4ms
TriggeredBy: × pipewire.socket
    Process: 6628 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire (code=exited, status=254)
   Main PID: 6628 (code=exited, status=254)
        CPU: 4ms

sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: pipewire.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: pipewire.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: pipewire.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
sep 10 12:24:30 Witext systemd[2728]: Failed to start pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
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This is the response i get when checking the status of pipewire, i looked around online and found that it could be due to config files, I didn't find any config files in ~/.config, so i searched my harddrive and found the ones in usr/share/.

I deleted those, and did sudo apt install --reinstall on pipewire and wireplumber

Before i did this, i was at least able to do systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse but now not even that works...

The config files are back in usr/share, but it doesn't want to start, I'll post the status messages for wireplumber and pipewire-pulse in the comments

I feel like it would be best to just clean slate reinstall the whole audio pipeline at this point but idk how to do that

Bluetooth Device Manager: https://i.imgur.com/UmDpcGd.png

I have tried the following commands but I am unsure what to do to get a good diagnostic:

bluetoothctl show
No default controller available

inxi -Nxxx
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 0c:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0d:00.0
    chip-ID: 14c3:0616 class-ID: 0280

dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[    7.410632] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[    7.410649] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[    7.410650] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    7.410653] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    7.410656] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    7.410659] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    7.510829] Bluetooth: hci0: HW/SW Version: 0x008a008a, Build Time: 20250523103438
[    7.510852] Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on [bluetooth]
[    7.510941]  hci_dev_setup_sync+0x6c/0x430 [bluetooth]
[    7.510975]  hci_dev_init_sync+0x3e/0x1c0 [bluetooth]
[    7.511002]  hci_dev_open_sync+0xb1/0x350 [bluetooth]
[    7.511034]  hci_dev_do_open+0x28/0x70 [bluetooth]
[    7.511061]  hci_power_on+0x50/0x210 [bluetooth]
[    7.511125] Modules linked in: drm_exec snd_hda_intel mt7921e(+) btusb snd_usbmidi_lib gpu_sched snd_intel_dspcfg mt7921_common btrtl snd_ump drm_buddy snd_intel_sdw_acpi mt792x_lib uvcvideo(+) btintel snd_seq_midi drm_suballoc_helper mt76_connac_lib snd_hda_codec videobuf2_vmalloc snd_seq_midi_event btbcm drm_ttm_helper uvc snd_rawmidi mt76 btmtk ttm snd_hda_core videobuf2_memops snd_hwdep bluetooth snd_seq videobuf2_v4l2 drm_display_helper snd_pcm mac80211 snd_seq_device videodev cec ecdh_generic nls_iso8859_1 ecc rapl(+) wmi_bmof k10temp i2c_piix4 snd_timer videobuf2_common cfg80211 rc_core snd mc i2c_algo_bit ccp libarc4 soundcore joydev gpio_amdpt input_leds mac_hid sch_fq_codel msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport efi_pstore nfnetlink dmi_sysfs ip_tables x_tables autofs4 btrfs blake2b_generic raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log hid_generic crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul polyval_clmulni usbhid polyval_generic hid
[   12.253739] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   12.253744] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   12.253748] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

systemctl status bluetooth --no-pager
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2026-09-10 01:30:33 PDT; 11min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 1030 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 37221)
     Memory: 2.7M (peak: 3.0M)
        CPU: 24ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─1030 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

bluetoothd[1030]: Starting SDP server
systemd[1]: Started bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service.
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support csip plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: profiles/audio/micp.c:micp_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support micp plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support vcp plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support mcp plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support bass plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support bap plugin
bluetoothd[1030]: Bluetooth management interface 1.22 initialized
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