On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > >> Joel Rees wrote: >> > After the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, sound doesn't work. >> >> Sound can be very frustrating. I have had my own share of problems >> with it lately. >> > > Hmm. Did I blog about it last time? I should check. But there are some > changes this time, what with the audio group coming into play. I think I > have that taken care of. > > >> > I looked through the sound faqs and discover that key elements of my >> sound >> > infrastructure are missing. So I started to add them using synaptic, >> but it >> > tells me the packages are not authenticated. >> > >> > Are we still in the middle of shifting from non-authenticated packages >> to >> > authenticated packages, or are the audio packages just like this? >> >> No. Everything is fine. Therefore you have a problem on your end. >> > > Maybe I should set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 to be sure I'm not missing > something. > > >> Verify that you have "wheezy" not "testing" in your /etc/apt/sources.list >> file. >> > > Checked that. That's where I started on the upgrade. > > >> Did you remember to 'apt-get update'? >> > > Always do, I'm pretty sure the upgrade would not have proceeded without it. > > >> What is the output of: >> >> apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring >> > > Hand copying since that's faster than mailing it to myself from the other > machine: > > ------------------------- > debian-archive-keyring: > Installed: 2012.4 > Candidate: 2012.4 > Version table: > *** 2012.4 0 > 500 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > ------------------------- > > April 2012? > > Pick one of the packages that you are trying to install. Say it is >> called "foo". What is the output of 'apt-cache policy foo'? >> >> Bob >> > > I think this is the one I tried to install: > > ----------------------- > alsa-player-alsa: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 0.99.80-5.1 > Version table: > 0.99.80-5.1 0 > 500 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > ----------------------- > > Hmm. I think I'll run synaptic with LANG set to English now. > No errors this time. Maybe there were mirrors synchronization issues. -- Joel Rees
