[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#526648: /proc/asound/dev not present

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Charles G Montgomery [090904 10:48 -0400]
> 
> On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> >* Charles G Montgomery [090502 09:45 -0400]
> >>Package: alsa-base
> >>Version: 1.0.19.dfsg-3
> >>Severity: grave
> >>Justification: renders package unusable
> >>
> >>When freshly booted, there is no /proc/asound/dev directory present.
> >>The symlink /dev/snd is dangling.  The rest of /proc/asound/
> >>seems to be present:
> >
> >Is this bug still valid for you?
> >
> >Elimar
> 
> Yes, it is.
> I have found a workaround, however.
> 
> Once the system is booted, I delete /dev/snd (which somehow gets
> created during the boot) and then run "dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base".
> This successfully recreates the correct contents of /proc/asound,
> and everything works.
> 
> The startup of alsa-base fails because the the bad symlink to
> /dev/snd is to a directory, which gets considered undeletable.  If


What do you choose by running dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base ?

Elimar


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