Matthew R. Lee wrote:
Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because
of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run
python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was
alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it.
This should fix it:
revdep-rebuild -X -i --ask
the problem seems to be a link problem with the ALSA lib. When you hear
"link problem", revdep-rebuild is the solution most of the time. It
will rebuild packages that use the ALSA lib.