Control: reassign -1 libasound2-plugins 1.1.7-1
* Vincent Zweije <vinc...@zweije.nl> [2018-11-06 10:32 +0100]:
> 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.
Please install libasound2-plugins 1.1.7-2 and come back to this bug
report.
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