[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#291942: "amixer: not found" errors in /etc/init.d/alsa

[Ivan Nestlerode]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.8-2
Severity: normal

I took a look in /var/log/boot recently and I saw a bunch of errors from
the ALSA startup script:

Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: bootlogd.
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Activating swap.
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Checking root file system...
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: fsck 1.36-rc3 (18-Jan-2005)
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /dev/hde1: clean, 8123/72288 files, 42026/144553 blocks
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: System time was Mon Jan 24 03:43:50 UTC 2005.
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: System Clock set. System local time is now Sun Jan 23 22:43:52 EST 2005.
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Cleaning up ifupdown...done.
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Calculating module dependencies... done.
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Loading modules...
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005:     8139too
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005:     snd-via82xx
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Setting up ALSA.../etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: done.


I think it is because /usr is not mounted at this point in the boot process.

>From later on in that same log file:
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Mounting local filesystems...
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /dev/hde5 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
Sun Jan 23 22:43:54 2005: /dev/hde6 on /var type ext3 (rw)
Sun Jan 23 22:43:54 2005: /dev/hde7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
Sun Jan 23 22:43:54 2005: /dev/hde8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
...

-Ivan

-- 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=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.8-1    ALSA utilities
ii  debconf                       1.4.42     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.11.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lsof                          4.73-1     List open files.
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-rel-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities

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