Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.20-2 Severity: normal 1) I figured out why it stopped the boot - that was my fault, the grub default was set to a single-user kernel so that's not due to alsa-utils, of course.
2) Attesting that I have misconfigured Alsa is rather insulting. But I shall attribute it to a) a faulty assumption on your part (that I must have configured Alsa at all) or b) unlucky use of English - you probably wanted to say "your Alsa seems misconfigured". So, no, *I* didn't configure Alsa at all (unless you specify what exactly you might mean by that which I didn't think of as "configuring Alsa"). Debian configured Alsa and it worked fine so far and continues to work even with the reported problem (so thanks for that anyway). Then, accepting a misconfiguration seems to have occurred from some source what do you suggest I do to give alsa-utils a chance to re-configure ? Doing "dpkg --purge alsa-utils; reboot" will clearly rid me of the messages complaining about a fault but will also rid me of alsa-utils which certainly isn't what I desire. Or *should* I desire that ? 3) What you might have to do ? Well, one thing might be to look at the posted snippet of the control file and verify whether the error messages (which clearly point to a perceived syntax error) have any basis in the file. I cannot verify that myself because I don't know the required syntax. Other than that I have no idea what you might have to do. Being a FOSS author myself I receive bug reports with seemingly unrelated bits of data so I know that even if the true cause lies somewhere else entirely a knowledgeable developer can sometimes tell (smell ?) the cause of a bug from info which doesn't really show it :-) Note - I am not saying you did anything wrong. I am also not saying alsa-utils is crap or anything like that. To the contrary. I simply desire to help you to help me. Karsten -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on: ii dialog 1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii libasound2 1.0.20-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii linux-sound-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1 base package for ALSA and OSS soun ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii module-init-tools 3.9-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii whiptail 0.52.10-4 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends: ii alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1 ALSA driver configuration files ii pciutils 1:3.1.3-1 Linux PCI Utilities alsa-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
