I installed the corresponding .conf files from the source package to /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d and sound started working again after a restart. So all that needs to be done is to add the files to the package.
Best regards, Matthias On 03/11/2018 09:56, Matthias Liertzer wrote: > Package: libasound2-plugins > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > After updating to the latest version of libasound2-plugins, sound on > my system stopped working. Trying to start `alsamixer' failed as well > with the following error message: > > ALSA lib conf.c:3639:(config_file_open) cannot access file > /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf > > It turns out that libasound2-plugins installs broken symlinks in > /etc/alsa/conf.d. All symlinks installed by libasound2-plugins in > /etc/alsa/conf.d are broken, because the corresponding files in > /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d do not exist. > > Best regards, > Matthias > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers unstable-debug > APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, > 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled >