Bug#393686: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#393686: alsa-utils: hard lockup when running alsactl names

[Vincent.McIntyre at atnf.csiro.au]

> >
> > Steps to reproduce:
> >    user$ /usr/sbin/alsactl names
>
> User can not write to /etc/asound.names
>
> > same occurs if I run as root.
>
> What tells
> $ ls -al /etc/asound.names
> ?


user$ ls -al /etc/asound.names
ls: /etc/asound.names: No such file or directory
user$ ls -la /etc/as*
ls: /etc/as*: No such file or directory

That file isn't supposed to exist according to dpkg:

user$ dpkg -L alsa-utils|grep asound
/usr/share/man/man1/asoundconf.1.gz
/usr/bin/asoundconf

I also checked for etc/asound.names, etc/asound and asound
on p.d.o. Nothing.

This is extremely weird, since the manual page explicitly mentions
/etc/asound.conf

user$ dpkg -L alsa-utils |grep etc
/etc
/etc/alsa
/etc/alsa/modprobe-post-install.d
/etc/alsa/modprobe-post-install.d/alsa-utils
/etc/udev
/etc/udev/rules.d
/etc/udev/alsa-utils.rules
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils


These are the alsa-* packages I have installed:

user$ dpkg  -l |grep alsa
ii  alsa-base      1.0.13-1       ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-utils     1.0.13-1       ALSA utilities

FWIW, /var/lib/alsa/asound.state looks normal
user$ ls -al /var/lib/alsa/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-09-09 11:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 41 root root 4096 2006-10-16 22:39 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 5273 2006-10-18 07:50 asound.state


> Could you please try as user
> $ alsactl -f $HOME/asond_user.names names
> and check that file?
>
> I tried same here with same soundcard and it is _not_ reproducible
> for me.

I still get a hard lockup.
The file ~/asound_user.names is not created.

I checked around in /var/log, all I could find were boot-time messages
in /var/log/messages, eg
  Oct 18 20:46:42 tinsley kernel: es1968: not attempting power management.
  Oct 18 20:46:42 tinsley kernel: es1968: clocking to 48000


Thanks for your questions
Vince