Well, yes. Why did you deinstall pulseaudio if you need audio?
I meant to say pipewire I was really tired when I made this post. mostly fixed it now
You will likely need either pulseaudio or pipewire for the audio hardware.
Jack worked before I installed then uninstalled pipewire
From what I understand about pipewire is that it has an API for Jack calls.
When you removed pipewire it may still be associated with Jack and it's trying to talk to software that isn't there.
Maybe try reinstalling Jack &/or removing the config files?
No such file or directory -> check servers log/journal. can it create the socket? is its dirctory missing? is the client looking in the same path?
Mostly Fixed it by reinstalling Pipewire.
Anytime I tried to remove pulseaudio it turned into me needing to reinstall the OS. It just touches too many things.
You think you didn't even have it before only to discover its components were a dependency all along and removing pulseaudio broke that dependency.
Mostly fixed it now
I was tired and titled this post wrong. I uninstalled pipewire
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