[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#292897: alsa-base: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Zack Cerza]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.8-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


alsa-base has been giving me the following error message since at least 1.0.7-2:

Setting up alsa-base (1.0.8-3) ...
dpkg: error processing alsa-base (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 alsa-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Setting up alsa-base (1.0.8-3) ...
dpkg: error processing alsa-base (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 alsa-base

Since I already had a working ALSA setup, my sound still works. I imagine this would make the package unusable for me otherwise. Since I'm not sure if this has anything to do with any experimental packages I have installed, I won't tag this as sarge even though the version currently in sarge gave me the same problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.27-0.1 Linux module utilities

-- debconf information:
  alsa-common/card-list:
* alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: always autosave