[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#293885: marked as done (alsa driver 1.0.8 stops machine from booting)
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Subject: [Fwd: [Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa issue]
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Package: alsa-source
Version: 1.0.8-4
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Subject: [Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa issue
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:53:54 -0500
Hi--
I had a serious issue upon upgrading FROM alsa-base-1.0.7-2 TO
alsa-base-1.0.8-4 (which upgrade happened in the testing distribution in
the last few days).
I'm just sending this email rather than a bug report because I doubt I
can be precise enough, and for that I apologize in advance.
After the upgrade, I was no longer able to boot kernel 2.6.8-1, though I
was able to boot kernel 2.4.22.
The boot simply stopped with a message related to isapnp and the module
for my (very old, legacy) sound card cs4232. By way of hopefully
letting you know what ordinarily happens, here is the portion
of /var/log/syslog reltaed to this card that appears during boot for
kernel 2.6.8-1 when alsa-base-1.0.7-2 is installed.
Feb 5 22:42:54 mars kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Feb 5 22:42:54 mars kernel: isapnp: Card 'CS4236B'
Feb 5 22:42:54 mars kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected
total
Feb 5 22:42:54 mars kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver
Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
Feb 5 22:42:54 mars kernel: ad1848: WSS/SB detected
Feb 5 22:42:54 mars kernel: ad1848: ISAPnP reports 'WSS/SB' at
i/o 0x534, irq 5, dma 1, 3
Feb 5 22:42:54 mars kernel: cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to
use the wavefront facilities.
Something was different under alsa-base-1.0.8-4, and as I said before,
the system was not booted. Unfortunately, during those failed boots (I
tried several times) /var/log/syslog was not succesfully written to. (In
fact, fsck complained a lot each time on reboot, so I suspect that
various things on the filesystem were left open). And I didn't write
down verbatim the complaining kernel-message. Boot halted in a strange
way (the system wasn't locked up -- pressing Enter on the keyboard
actually scrolled the boot messages -- but the system did not boot).
I did not have this problem booting the old kernel 2.4 with the new
alsa-base 1.0.8.
I have resolve MY problem by booting in 2.4.22 and "downgrading"
alsa-base to 1.0.7-2. Now I can boot the 2.6 kernel again.
Sorry if this is not helpful, but I thought it fairly serious. Please
let me know what I could do to give you more useful information.
best,
gm
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Subject: Re: Bug#293885: How are the OSS modules getting loaded?
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On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 21:14 -0500, George McNinch wrote:
> thanks. the 2.6 kernel now boots with the newer alsa versions.
Good to hear.
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