Bug#411305: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#411305: running alsa-utils at boot breaks sound configuration

[Elimar Riesebieter]

severity 411305 normal

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On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 the mental interface of
Michael Rasmussen told:

> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.13-2
> Severity: grave
Not really, read [1]
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> After upgrade of linux-sound-base (1.0.13-4) and alsa-base
> (1.0.13-4) alsa-utils is no longer working. Actually is completely
> messes up the sound system.
> Steps to reproduce the error:
> 1) Clean all sound configuration: dpkg --purge --force-all
> libasound2 libasound2-plugins linux-sound-base alsa-base
> alsa-utils
done
> 2) Install from scratch: apt-get install libasound2
> libasound2-plugins linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
done
> 3) Restore mixer settings (unmute volume and pcm)
via alsactl store
> 4) Login. Sound is working
yes
> 5) Restart the system. You receive notification that all sound and
> mixer settings are saved.
yes
> 6) When the system comes up again aumix produceses a long list of
> errors indication that sound card could not be found in which case
> no restoring of sound and mixer setting was possible.
no! Could you please provide the complete dmesg?

Here:
$ dpkg -l | egrep "(alsa|sound)"
ii  alsa-base           1.0.13-4
ii  alsa-oss            1.0.12-1
ii  alsa-utils          1.0.13-2
ii  libasound2          1.0.13-1
ii  libasound2-plugins  1.0.13-3
ii  linux-sound-base    1.0.13-4
..

> 7) Login and discovere that all indication of a working alsa sound
> system are gone.

Works fine here listening to Joe Satriani with my
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Live           ]: EMU10K1 - SB PCI512 [CT4790]
                      SB PCI512 [CT4790] (rev.8, serial:0x80231102) at 0xac00, irq 11

> 8) Clean up again: dpkg --purge --force-all libasound2
> libasound2-plugins linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
Doesn't matter on my system
> 9) Install from scratch again but this time don't include
> alsa-utils: apt-get install libasound2 libasound2-plugins
> linux-sound-base alsa-base
Doesn't matter on my system

So please tell us which kernel (sound driver -> lsmod | grep snd)
you're using. Your platform (cat /proc/version) would be nice to
know.

For an first approach: install alsa-utils 1.0.13-2 again, delete
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state and do /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart.

I am waiting for the results ;)

Elimar

[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities

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