[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#500398: alsa-base: no sound after upgrade until running alsaconf

[Adrian Mariano]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.17.dfsg-2
Severity: minor

I didn't have any sound after I ran a dist-upgrade.  Any attempt to
generate sound would give error messages about being unable to open a
slave.  Running alsaconf fixed this problem.  (But surely this should
have been done during the upgrade if it was necessary.)  

-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libasound2     1.0.16-2       ALSA library
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfdff8000 irq 22
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2008-09-27 15:57 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2008-09-27 16:06 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2008-09-27 16:08 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2008-09-27 15:57 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2008-09-27 15:57 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 26 2008-09-27 15:57 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2008-09-27 15:57 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2008-09-27 15:57 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (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-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.17.dfsg-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.4-1         tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.16-2   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
ii  alsa-oss                      1.0.15-1   ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
pn  apmd                          <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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