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* Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> [2016-02-14 15:44 -0800]:
> reopen 813446
> thanks
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 09:33:16PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > * Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> [2016-02-14 10:57 -0800]:
> > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:52:47AM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > Could you please run as root:
> > > >
> > > > # alsactl init
> > >
> > > As mentioned in the bug, I ended up restarting pulseaudio, which made
> > > this error stop and got audio working again.
> >
> > So I close this bug hereby.
>
> Reopening, as the bug still exists. I stated in the original bug that I
> restarted pulseaudio to work around the problem; that I had to do so to
> get audio working again simply confirms the problem. The bug was
> "Upgrade causes pulseaudio to fail until restarted". Upgrading should
> not break a running system.
>
> As far as I can tell, upgrading ALSA broke the running instance of
> pulseaudio. That suggests some compatibility issue between the old and
> new versions. If no better way can be found to solve the problem, then
> at the very least this would need a warning to restart services
> depending on ALSA, such as pulseaudio. But ideally whatever caused the
> breakage should be fixed instead.
I can't reproduce with a very similar soundcard. Could you please
post the output of
$ ls -al $HOME/.pulse
$ ls -al $HOME/.asoundrc
$ ls -al /etc/asound*
Thanks for cooperation
Elimar
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