Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.8-2 Severity: normal I took a look in /var/log/boot recently and I saw a bunch of errors from the ALSA startup script:
Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: bootlogd. Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Activating swap. Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Checking root file system... Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: fsck 1.36-rc3 (18-Jan-2005) Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /dev/hde1: clean, 8123/72288 files, 42026/144553 blocks Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: System time was Mon Jan 24 03:43:50 UTC 2005. Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: System Clock set. System local time is now Sun Jan 23 22:43:52 EST 2005. Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Cleaning up ifupdown...done. Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Calculating module dependencies... done. Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Loading modules... Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: 8139too Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: snd-via82xx Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Setting up ALSA.../etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /etc/init.d/alsa: 435: amixer: not found Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: done. I think it is because /usr is not mounted at this point in the boot process. >From later on in that same log file: Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: Mounting local filesystems... Sun Jan 23 22:43:53 2005: /dev/hde5 on /usr type ext3 (rw) Sun Jan 23 22:43:54 2005: /dev/hde6 on /var type ext3 (rw) Sun Jan 23 22:43:54 2005: /dev/hde7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) Sun Jan 23 22:43:54 2005: /dev/hde8 on /home type ext3 (rw) ... -Ivan -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages alsa-base depends on: ii alsa-utils 1.0.8-1 ALSA utilities ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.11.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsof 4.73-1 List open files. ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities -- debconf information: alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: always autosave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]