[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#827636: Bug#827636: libasound2: ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL pulse

[Lev Livnev]

Elimar, thank you for your help:

I am unable to adjust the sound, so I felt like the package is unusable in
my configuration. Here are the outputs:

$ dpkg -l | egrep '(alsa|libasound)'
ii  alsa-base                             1.0.27+1
    all          dummy package to ease purging of obsolete conffiles
ii  alsa-utils                            1.1.1-1
   amd64        Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
ii  gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64               1.8.2-1
   amd64        GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  libasound2:amd64                      1.1.1-1
   amd64        shared library for ALSA applications
ii  libasound2:i386                       1.1.1-1
   i386         shared library for ALSA applications
ii  libasound2-data                       1.1.1-1
   all          Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers
ii  libasound2-plugins:amd64              1.1.1-1
   amd64        ALSA library additional plugins
ii  libasound2-plugins:i386               1.1.1-1
   i386         ALSA library additional plugins
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3263 Analog [ALC3263 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
# alsactl init
[sudo] password for lev:
alsactl: sysfs_init:48: sysfs path '/sys' is invalid

Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel Broadwell HDMI"
"HDA:80862808,80860101,00100000" "0x1028" "0x0665"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
# sudo alsactl restore

(last command gives no output)

Lev

On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 at 09:54 Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:

> * Lev Livnev <lev.livnev at gmail.com> [2016-06-18 23:45 +0100]:
>
> > Package: libasound2
> > Version: 1.1.1-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >
> > After the update to libasound2 version 1.1.1-1 from 1.1.0-1, it is no
> longer
> > possible to control audio, the below command, which should adjust the
> audio
> > levels, fails with the following error:
> >
> > ~/ amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%+
> > ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL pulse
> > amixer: Mixer attach pulse error: No such file or directory
> >
> > I can't be sure if this is related to the package libasound2,
> > libasound2-plugins, or alsa-utils, or even something else, so please
> reclassify
> > if necessary.
>
> But you're sure to set severity to grave?
>
> Is sound working? Anyway, what tells:
>
> $ dpkg -l | egrep '(alsa|libasound)'
>
> $ aplay -l
>
> # alsactl init
>
> # alsactl restore
>
> Elimar
> --
>   You cannot propel yourself forward by
>   patting yourself on the back.
>
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