[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#813446: Upgrade causes pulseaudio to fail until restarted

[Josh Triplett]

reopen 813446
thanks

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 09:33:16PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> * Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> [2016-02-14 10:57 -0800]:
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:52:47AM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> [...]
> > > Could you please run as root:
> > > 
> > > # alsactl init
> > 
> > As mentioned in the bug, I ended up restarting pulseaudio, which made
> > this error stop and got audio working again.
> 
> So I close this bug hereby.

Reopening, as the bug still exists.  I stated in the original bug that I
restarted pulseaudio to work around the problem; that I had to do so to
get audio working again simply confirms the problem.  The bug was
"Upgrade causes pulseaudio to fail until restarted".  Upgrading should
not break a running system.

As far as I can tell, upgrading ALSA broke the running instance of
pulseaudio.  That suggests some compatibility issue between the old and
new versions.  If no better way can be found to solve the problem, then
at the very least this would need a warning to restart services
depending on ALSA, such as pulseaudio.  But ideally whatever caused the
breakage should be fixed instead.