Hallo, Adam Bogacki hat gesagt: // Adam Bogacki wrote: > However when I try 'apt-get remove alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686' > - intending a fresh install with a new kernel - I get > > >>The following packages will be REMOVED: > >> alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686 > >>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > >>Need to get 0B of archives. > >>After unpacking 3391kB disk space will be freed. > >>Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > >>(Reading database ... 98414 files and directories currently installed.) > >>Removing alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686 ... > >>Storing ALSA mixer settings ... failed > >>Shutting down ALSA (version 1.0.3): aborting. (sound used by PIDs 1449 > >>1480) ... > So I can't use the alsa-modules I have, but apparently > cannot remove them either.
Some applications still use the sound (PID 1449 and 1480 in your example), so dpkg fails. I guess, you need to stop all applications that use sound and then do the remove. $ /etc/init.d/alsa force-stop might help, it kills those applications, that use sound, I think. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
