Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.13-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
After upgrade of linux-sound-base (1.0.13-4) and alsa-base (1.0.13-4) alsa-utils is no longer working. Actually is completely messes up the sound system. Steps to reproduce the error: 1) Clean all sound configuration: dpkg --purge --force-all libasound2 libasound2-plugins linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils 2) Install from scratch: apt-get install libasound2 libasound2-plugins linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils 3) Restore mixer settings (unmute volume and pcm) 4) Login. Sound is working 5) Restart the system. You receive notification that all sound and mixer settings are saved. 6) When the system comes up again aumix produceses a long list of errors indication that sound card could not be found in which case no restoring of sound and mixer setting was possible. 7) Login and discovere that all indication of a working alsa sound system are gone. 8) Clean up again: dpkg --purge --force-all libasound2 libasound2-plugins linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils 9) Install from scratch again but this time don't include alsa-utils: apt-get install libasound2 libasound2-plugins linux-sound-base alsa-base 10) Restore mixer settings 11) Login. sound is working. 12) Restart the system. You receive notification that all sound and mixer settings are saved. 13) When the system comes up again you receive notification that all sound and mixer settings are saved. 14) Login. This time alsa sound system is working properly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
