Elimar, thank you for your help: I am unable to adjust the sound, so I felt like the package is unusable in my configuration. Here are the outputs:
$ dpkg -l | egrep '(alsa|libasound)' ii alsa-base 1.0.27+1 all dummy package to ease purging of obsolete conffiles ii alsa-utils 1.1.1-1 amd64 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA ii gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64 1.8.2-1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libasound2:amd64 1.1.1-1 amd64 shared library for ALSA applications ii libasound2:i386 1.1.1-1 i386 shared library for ALSA applications ii libasound2-data 1.1.1-1 all Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers ii libasound2-plugins:amd64 1.1.1-1 amd64 ALSA library additional plugins ii libasound2-plugins:i386 1.1.1-1 i386 ALSA library additional plugins $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3263 Analog [ALC3263 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 # alsactl init [sudo] password for lev: alsactl: sysfs_init:48: sysfs path '/sys' is invalid Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel Broadwell HDMI" "HDA:80862808,80860101,00100000" "0x1028" "0x0665" Hardware is initialized using a generic method # sudo alsactl restore (last command gives no output) Lev On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 at 09:54 Elimar Riesebieter <riese...@lxtec.de> wrote: > * Lev Livnev <lev.liv...@gmail.com> [2016-06-18 23:45 +0100]: > > > Package: libasound2 > > Version: 1.1.1-1 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > After the update to libasound2 version 1.1.1-1 from 1.1.0-1, it is no > longer > > possible to control audio, the below command, which should adjust the > audio > > levels, fails with the following error: > > > > ~/ amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%+ > > ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL pulse > > amixer: Mixer attach pulse error: No such file or directory > > > > I can't be sure if this is related to the package libasound2, > > libasound2-plugins, or alsa-utils, or even something else, so please > reclassify > > if necessary. > > But you're sure to set severity to grave? > > Is sound working? Anyway, what tells: > > $ dpkg -l | egrep '(alsa|libasound)' > > $ aplay -l > > # alsactl init > > # alsactl restore > > Elimar > -- > You cannot propel yourself forward by > patting yourself on the back. >