Bug#782748: volti crashes and dosnt start again if soundcard removed

[treaki]

Package: volti
Version: 0.2.3-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

i am using volti togehter with the lxde desktop to be able to control my volume through my mediakeys on my thinkpad (maybe there is also a better solution but i found out this for me because the lxde desktop env dosnt provide a volume mixing gsystem (like gnome2/mate dose) by defalut...

   * What led up to the situation?
i have changed the soundcard to another external to control this by the media keys on my thinkpad
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
some time later, i was on the go and volti wasnt working anymore. i tryed to do it in terminal to find out what was happening
   * What was the outcome of this action?
treaki at hostname:~$ volti
[alsactrl.py:__init__:41] can't open Master control for card ThinkPadEC, trying to select first available mixer channel

[alsactrl.py:__init__:49] can't open first available control for card ThinkPadEC
error: list index out of range
Xlib.protocol.request.QueryExtension
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/volti", line 53, in <module>
    volti = main.VolumeTray()
  File "/usr/lib/volti/volti/main.py", line 124, in __init__
    self.watchid = gobject.io_add_watch(fd, eventmask, self.update)
TypeError: an integer is required 
treaki at hostname:~$ cd .config/volti/
treaki at hostname:~/.config/volti$ ls
config
treaki at hostname:~/.config/volti$ mv config config1
treaki at hostname:~/.config/volti$ volti
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
that volti had an workaround about removed sondcards so that i dont need to trash and redo my whole configuration. Also i would apprichiate pulseaudiosupport and a more reliable codebase (sometimes volti dosnt survices a suspend to ram and is using up 99% of my cpu)


i hope this problems can be fixed

thanks in advance and keep up the good work with tebian

greetingds treaki


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages volti depends on:
ii  libdmtx-python [python]  20140917-1
ii  python                   2.7.8-2
ii  python-alsaaudio         0.7-1
ii  python-dbus              1.2.0-2+b3
ii  python-gobject           3.14.0-1
ii  python-gtk2              2.24.0-4
ii  python-xlib              0.14+20091101-1

volti recommends no packages.

volti suggests no packages.

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