[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#268221: alsa-base: /etc/init.d/alsa loses sometimes the race with udev

[Kai Weber]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.5a-3
Severity: normal

When booting my system alsactl restore sometimes failes with "no
soundcards found". The manual invokation of alsactl restore later on
command line works. So I guessed the module loading, device creation is
not finished when alsactl gets called in the init script. I inserted an
sleep 5 before the alsactl call in the init script and rebooted serveral
times. Now the mixer settings are always restored succesfully.

I have no idea how to fix this. Maybe it could help to invoke the alsa
init script later.

Regards, Kai

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.5-3    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  debconf                       1.4.32     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre5-6 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1   Linux module utilities
ii  psmisc                        21.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information:
  alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: autosave always