On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 the mental interface of
Moshe Yudkowsky told:
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.14-1 Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
After installing this package, alsa stopped working and would not
restart with any of the usual methods; /etc/init.d/alsasound, for
example, would simply hang.
I discovered that I had to manually load all the snd* modules, but
any attempt to load my particular alsa kernel module failed:
# modprobe snd-via82xx sh: /usr/lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install: No
such file or directory FATAL: Error running install command for
snd_via82xx
Well, you're running 2.6. Kernel and udev must be used. The script
called by udev is /lib/udev/alsa-utils. It seems, that your udev or
some modprobe.d/file is missconfigured. Searching the database for
usr/lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install (apt-file) gives nothing.
This package works well and is by trueth not unusable!
Elimar,
Thanks for writing.
I've checked the udev database (/etc/udev/rules.d), and the rules
only reference a NAME or possibly a SYMLINK. No post-install actions.
I am pretty certain the post-install action was something triggered
by modprobe and not udev.
And... it is. /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base contains an explicit rule to
run /usr/lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install. That file is part of alsa-base.
I promise you that taking the update made the package unusable. I
guess I'm just lucky.
So does this bug get transfered to alsa-base? And why is my system
the only one that stops working? (Maybe the install asked me if I
should keep the old modprobe.d/alsa-base, and of course by default I
would.)
Please let me know if you need any additional information.
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