[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#729373: No $HOME path available for amixer (in utils.sh) during system boot

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:09:11 +0100 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.0.27.2-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> in X2Go [1] we develop a thinclient [2] that boots via PXE. This PXE environment has
> alsa-utils and pulseaudio installed. By some reason, alsa-utils tries to start
> pulseaudio during boot and we get these error messages (many of them...):
> 
> """
> Failed to create secure directory (//.config/pulse): No such file or directory.
> """
> 
> This problem is caused by amixer in /usr/share/alsa/utils.sh not being aware of
> any set home directory during processing of the alsa-utils init script.
> 
> The attached patch fixes this issue. The thinclient system we currently test is built
> against a Debian jessie system.

Should be fixed in 1.0.28. Please reopen if not.

Elimar
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