[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#522061: /usr/sbin/alsa does not run due to missing /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install

[David]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.19.dfsg-2
Severity: normal

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Hi there.

The 'alsaconf' utility was recently removed from 'alsa-utils', so I
have been trying to figure out how to do alsaconf-like things without
using alsaconf (I wish that alsa-utils doc files provided alternative
syntax instead of simply announcing removal).

I was reading /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian.gz, and it says
you can run 'alsa force-unload' to force unload of modules and
applications (one of a few things I used to use alsaconf for).

However, /usr/sbin/alsa now does nothing when I run it. I checked the
script, and it has a section like this near the top:

# Exit if alsa-base package is not installed
[ -f /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install ] || exit 0

However, that file is not on my system. "dpkg-query -L alsa-base"
doesn't show it, but for some reason "apt-file search
'/lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install'" does list it. I unpacked the
alsa-base package, and there is no reference to it (either an actual
file, or in any of the maintainer scripts). I also tried re-installing
the package, but no luck.

Thanks for your time.

David.

-- 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                      1.0.19-1
shared library for ALSA applications
--- 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 0xe3220000 irq 22
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 2009-03-30 13:22 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2009-03-31 13:31 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2009-03-31 13:46 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2009-03-30 13:22 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 2009-03-30 13:22 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 26 2009-03-30 13:22 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 2009-03-30 13:22 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2009-03-30 13:22 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  linux-sound-base           1.0.19.dfsg-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsof                       4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files
ii  module-init-tools          3.7-pre9-1    tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                       0.140-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.19-1   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
pn  alsa-oss                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  apmd                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  oss-compat                    0.0.4+nmu3 OSS compatibility package

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

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