[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#901689: libasound2-data: OI Jonsson's patch didn't work for me

[Steve Newcomb]

Package: libasound2-data
Version: 1.1.7-1
Followup-For: Bug #901689

Dear Maintainer,

After I ran aptitude fullupgrade, pavucontrol could not connect to
pulseaudio daemon.  Sound didn't work.  I checked syslog and found:

Nov 10 12:06:53 basil kernel: [  157.224224] traps: pulseaudio[7481]
general protection ip:7fd174ca93b0 sp:7ffe111f6190 error:0 in
libasound.so.2.0.0[7fd174c84000+8f000]

I checked Debian bugs for libasound and found OI Jonsson's patch.  I
ran pulseaudio -v and got results consistent with OI Jonsson's
observations:

I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)utils.c: could not open configuration file
/usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1620000 irq 35/HDA Intel PCH
at 0xf1620000 irq 35.conf
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)parser.c: error: could not parse
configuration for card HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1620000 irq 35
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)utils.c: could not open configuration file
/usr/share/alsa/ucm/HDA Intel PCH/HDA Intel PCH.conf
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)parser.c: error: could not parse
configuration for card HDA Intel PCH
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)main.c: error: failed to import HDA Intel
PCH use case configuration -2
I: [pulseaudio] alsa-ucm.c: UCM not available for card HDA Intel PCH
I: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Failed to set hardware parameters on
plug:hw:0: Invalid argument
I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)control.c: Invalid CTL front:0
..etc.

So I did exactly what OI Jonsson suggests, adding

'HDA Intel' cards.HDA-Intel

to

/usr/share/alsa/cards/aliases.conf

But there was no discernible improvement.  Same issue, same syslog
entries.  Pulseaudio is still broken; it won't start.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

libasound2-data depends on no packages.

libasound2-data recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libasound2-data suggests:
ii  alsa-utils  1.1.7-1

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