[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#564856: Bug#564856: aplay: error message when user not in audio group is unhelpful

[Elimar Riesebieter]

tags 564856 wontfix
thanks

* Jonathan Nieder [100112 04:16 -0600]
> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.21-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Trying to play a sound, I get a series of errors
> 
> | $ aplay 69550__dataka__mu_eca_piano.wav 
> | ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
> | ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
> | ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> | ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
> | ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> | ALSA lib conf.c:4154:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
> | ALSA lib conf.c:4633:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
> | ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> | aplay: main:608: audio open error: No such file or directory
> 
> This looks like debugging output.  But the library did not make
> any mistake: I am not in the audio group, so I do not have access
> to any sound card, though this was not immediately obvious to me.
> 
> Perhaps a more direct message ("cannot find a card to output to"
> or something) would help.

Well, a message like "Are you member og group audio?" would do the
job- But there aremany more ways this error can be fixed though.

Bug won't fix

Elimar


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