Bug#398808: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#398808: Requested test of alsa-base 1.0.13-2

[Jordi Mallach]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:26:22PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > When I started GNOME-ALSA-Mixer 0.9.7 there was the message: 
> > "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
> > GNOME ALSA Mixer. Some of your configuration settings may not work
> > properly."
> > Clicking on Details showed:
> > Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-alsamixer/display_mixers/":
> > Key/directory may not end with a slash (/)
> > Bad key or directory name: "/apps/gnome-alsamixer/display_names/":
> > Key/directory may not end with a slash (/)
> 
> This is not an alsa fault. The configuration of the gnome-alsamixer
> is saved in $HOME/.gconf/apps/. There might be some thing wrong
> there. Try
> 
> mv HOME/.gconf/apps/gnome-alsamixer HOME/.gconf/apps/gnome-alsamixer,save
> 
> and start the gnome-alsamixer again. Does alsamixer on the console
> work as you want?

It's a gnome-alsamixer bug. It apparently sets bad values for its own
gconf keys.

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