[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#1124331: alsa-utils: "alsactl info" gives an error on snd_ctl_rawmidi_next_device

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.15-1
Severity: normal

I get the following error:

qaa:~> alsactl info
#
# Sound card
#
- card: 0
  id: PCH
  name: HDA Intel PCH
  longname: HDA Intel PCH at 0x6189290000 irq 218
  driver_name: HDA-Intel
  mixer_name: Realtek ALC289
  components: HDA:10ec0289,10280b1a,00100002 HDA:8086281c,80860101,00100000
  controls_count: 51
  pcm:
    - stream: PLAYBACK
      devices:
        - device: 0
          id: ALC289 Analog
          name: ALC289 Analog
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
        - device: 3
          id: HDMI 0
          name: HDMI 0
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
        - device: 7
          id: HDMI 1
          name: HDMI 1
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
        - device: 8
          id: HDMI 2
          name: HDMI 2
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
        - device: 9
          id: HDMI 3
          name: HDMI 3
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
    - stream: CAPTURE
      devices:
        - device: 0
          id: ALC289 Analog
          name: ALC289 Analog
          subdevices:
            - subdevice: 0
              name: subdevice #0
alsactl: rawmidi_device_list:109: snd_ctl_rawmidi_next_device: Inappropriate ioctl for device

with exit code 25.

Similar error on an older machine with alsa-utils 1.2.12-1.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.17.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  kmod              34.2-2
ii  libasound2t64     1.2.15-2
ii  libatopology2t64  1.2.15-2
ii  libc6             2.42-6
ii  libfftw3-single3  3.3.10-2+b1
ii  libncursesw6      6.5+20251123-1
ii  libsamplerate0    0.2.2-4+b2
ii  libtinfo6         6.5+20251123-1

alsa-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages alsa-utils suggests:
ii  dialog  1.3-20250817-1

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