Package: libasounds
Version: 1.1.7-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
After upgrading libasound2 and -data recently from 1.1.6-1 to 1.1.7-1,
pulseaudio failed to find my usb headphones.
A little rooting around pointed at aplay to demonstrate the problem.
Before the upgrade (actually, after downgrading again), aplay -l reports:
$aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: EarMicrophone [USB Ear-Microphone], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$
After the upgrade, it reports:
$aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
ALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf
ALSA lib conf.c:3559:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load
returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4013:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing
configuration
aplay: device_list:281: control open (0): No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf
ALSA lib conf.c:3559:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load
returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4013:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing
configuration
aplay: device_list:281: control open (1): No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file
/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf
ALSA lib conf.c:3559:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load
returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4013:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing
configuration
aplay: device_list:281: control open (2): No such file or directory
$
/etc/alsa/conf.d contains a lot of broken symlinks (what are they supposed
to point at anyway?):
$ls -L /etc/alsa/conf.d
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/50-arcam-av-ctl.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/50-oss.conf': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-a52-encoder.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/50-jack.conf': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-upmix.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/98-usb-stream.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/60-vdownmix.conf': No such file or
directory
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa/conf.d/10-samplerate.conf': No such file or
directory
10-rate-lav.conf@ 10-speexrate.conf@ 50-jack.conf@
50-pulseaudio.conf@ 60-upmix.conf@ 98-usb-stream.conf@
10-samplerate.conf@ 50-arcam-av-ctl.conf@ 50-oss.conf@
60-a52-encoder.conf@ 60-vdownmix.conf@ 99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example
$
Removing the symlinks (actually, renaming /etc/alsa/conf.d to
.../conf.d.off) fixes the problem.
It appears libasound has become sensitive to not being to open these files.
Vincent.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
