[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#848395: Bug#848395: udev rule fails with exit code 99

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de> [2016-12-17 16:01 +0100]:

> On 2016-12-17 14:10, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 +moreinfo
> > 
> > * Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de> [2016-12-17 11:03 +0100]:
> > 
[...]
> The manual page of alsactl says.
> 
> > init tries to initialize all devices to a default state. If device is
> > not known, error code 99 is returned.

[...]

> > > Is the udev rule still needed?
> > 
> > yes
> 
> Interesting. Sorry, for being ignorant, just to be clear, it does the same
> thing, what the systemd service unit does?

Sysvinit systems don't have "systemd device units"

> > > I don’t really know, how it’s supposed to
> > > work, and what I don’t have that file `asound.state`.
> > 
> > Create it as mentioned above
> > 
> > > It would be nice to not run `alsactl` during startup, if it’s failing,
> > > to get rid of the error message.
> > 
> > What do you think: Is it an error or just a message?
> 
> As it exits with an error code different from 0, I consider it an error.

As you found out by quoting alsactl's manpage that your device is not
known. 

Elimar
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