On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:14:22AM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> The major problem seems to be in the post-removal script:
>
> cat: alsa: No such file or directory
>
> The closest Google match I can find is
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg81130.html
> and I've made sure /etc/modutils/alsa exists on my system.
>
> I know I can tell dpkg to force the removal of the package even though a
> reinstall is recommended (although... maybe it will try running the
> post-remove again!), but I want to know if there's a cleaner way out of
> this.
>
> I've also tried strace-ing the dpkg processes to find out which
> particular 'alsa' file it is seeking, all strace lines looking for
> 'alsa' are at the end of the mail -- I don't really know how to read
> strace output :(
>
I ran into this myself - being one of the ALSA maintainers you'd think I was
immune. Run dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base, and hit enter at every prompt, since
all the answers should be loaded - it will re-link the 3 or so symlinks to
/etc/alsa/modutils/1.0 that it needs, and the error should go away.
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Steve
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