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alsa-utils: init script should call alsactl restore with -F option
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Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.15-1
Severity: minor
In response to a kernel bug report where I mentioned that I got some
errors on boot when switching from a 2.6.23 to a 2.6.24-rc kernel, an
upstream alsa developer indicated that those errors could be avoided by
using the -F option in the init scripts.
The errors were because of changes in the available controls.
Please consider adding that option in /etc/init.d/alsa-utils:
- if MSG="$(alsactl restore $CARD 2>&1 >/dev/null)" && [ ! "$MSG" ] ; then
+ if MSG="$(alsactl -F restore $CARD 2>&1 >/dev/null)" && [ ! "$MSG"
] ; then
For details, please see:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9374
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.15-1 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20071013-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii linux-sound-base 1.0.15-2 base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii pciutils 1:2.2.4-1.1 Linux PCI Utilities
ii python-minimal 2.4.4-6 A minimal subset of the Python lan
ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii alsa-base 1.0.15-2 ALSA driver configuration files
ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
-- no debconf information
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 the mental interface of
Frans Pop told:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007, you wrote:
[...]
> > -F is only used if alsactl restore failes and returns nonzero
>
> If you want to discuss the appropriate or not appropriate use of the -F
> flag, please do so with the upstream alsa people.
> I'm only forwarding you what they told me: the -F flag should be used by
> default in the init script to avoid such errors.
>
> AFAICT this seems to match the text in the manpage:
> -F, --force
> Used with restore command. Try to restore the matching
> control elements as much as possible.
Frans, please have a look at the initscript:
restore_levels()
{
[ -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state ] || return 1
CARD="$1"
[ "$1" = all ] && CARD=""
# Assume that if alsactl prints a message on stderr
# then it failed somehow. This works around the fact
# that alsactl doesn't return nonzero status when it
# can't restore settings for the card
if MSG="$(alsactl restore $CARD 2>&1 >/dev/null)" && [ ! "$MSG" ] ; then
return 0
else
# Retry with the "force" option. This restores more levels
# but it results in much longer error messages.
alsactl -F restore $CARD >/dev/null 2>&1
log_action_cont_msg "warning: 'alsactl restore${CARD:+ $CARD}' failed
with error message '$MSG'"
return 1
fi
}
Thanks for your engagement. Anyway, I'll close the bug now.
Elimar
--
Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge,
not the fountainheads ;-)
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