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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

Control: tags -1 unreproducible
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

* Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> [2016-02-14 15:44 -0800]:

> 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.

I can't reproduce with a very similar soundcard. Could you please
post the output of

$ ls -al $HOME/.pulse
$ ls -al $HOME/.asoundrc
$ ls -al /etc/asound*

Thanks for cooperation
Elimar
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