On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Joel Rees wrote:
> > After the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, sound doesn't work.
>
> Sound can be very frustrating. I have had my own share of problems
> with it lately.
>
Hmm. Did I blog about it last time? I should check. But there are some
changes this time, what with the audio group coming into play. I think I
have that taken care of.
> > I looked through the sound faqs and discover that key elements of my
> sound
> > infrastructure are missing. So I started to add them using synaptic, but
> it
> > tells me the packages are not authenticated.
> >
> > Are we still in the middle of shifting from non-authenticated packages to
> > authenticated packages, or are the audio packages just like this?
>
> No. Everything is fine. Therefore you have a problem on your end.
>
Maybe I should set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 to be sure I'm not missing something.
> Verify that you have "wheezy" not "testing" in your /etc/apt/sources.list
> file.
>
Checked that. That's where I started on the upgrade.
> Did you remember to 'apt-get update'?
>
Always do, I'm pretty sure the upgrade would not have proceeded without it.
> What is the output of:
>
> apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring
>
Hand copying since that's faster than mailing it to myself from the other
machine:
-------------------------
debian-archive-keyring:
Installed: 2012.4
Candidate: 2012.4
Version table:
*** 2012.4 0
500 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-------------------------
April 2012?
Pick one of the packages that you are trying to install. Say it is
> called "foo". What is the output of 'apt-cache policy foo'?
>
> Bob
>
I think this is the one I tried to install:
-----------------------
alsa-player-alsa:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.99.80-5.1
Version table:
0.99.80-5.1 0
500 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
-----------------------
Hmm. I think I'll run synaptic with LANG set to English now.
--
Joel Rees
