[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#256698: alsa-base: alsaconf fails because of missing files/symlinks

[Toine Schreurs]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.5a-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

On a freshly installed system, the only present file is
/etc/alsa/0.9
The file /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 is missing and causes alsaconf
to fail.

The workaround was:
mkdir /etc/alsa/modutils
touch /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0
ln -s /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa
ln -s /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 /etc/modutils/alsa

After these commands, alsaconf runs without problems.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.5-1    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  debconf                       1.4.25     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
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