[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#240267: Upgrade should not fail if alsa cannot be restarted

[Dave Carrigan]

Package: alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-k7
Version: 1.0.3+1
Severity: normal

I shouldn't have to exit my GUI or track down every process that is
using the sound card just to install a new version of the modules:

Setting up alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-k7 (1.0.3+1) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.25-1-k7/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.25-1-k7/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.25-1-k7/alsa/snd-vxp440.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.25-1-k7/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o
Configuration file for ALSA 1.0 exists.
Attempting to start.

Storing ALSA mixer settings ... done.
Shutting down ALSA (version 1.0.2c): aborting. (sound used by PIDs 4492
4621
4623
4624
4625
4626
4627
4628)
invoke-rc.d: initscript alsa, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-k7 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-k7
  

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-k7 depends on:
ii  alsa-base                     1.0.3-1    ALSA sound driver common files

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