[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#483616: /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start hanging /etc/acpi/sleep.sh until USB device unplug

[Brandon Philips]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.16-1
Severity: normal

Symptom: Sleep LED continues to blink even when it seems the system is
fully restored.

Running /etc/acpi/sleep.sh with /bin/sh -x I found that it was hanging
on:
+++ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start

This hang lasts a very long time.  Getting bored I unplugged my USB
microphone (part of an UVC Logitech camera) and got this error message:

Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message
'alsactl: set_control:1269: failed to obtain info for control #1 (No
such device)
alsactl: set_control:1269: failed to obtain info for control #2 (No such
device)'...done.

After this error /etc/acpi/sleep.sh continues on its way and runs the
rest of its scripts eventually killing the sleep light.

This is 100% reproducible so let me know if I can provide more details.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-rc4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.16-2       ALSA library
ii  libc6                     2.7-10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080405-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.16-1.1     base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-7          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.4-1          tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  pciutils                  1:2.2.10-1     Linux PCI Utilities
ii  python                    2.4.4-6        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.2    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                     1.0.16-1.1 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  udev                          120-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

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