[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#369392: alsa-utils: ALSA lib control.c:816:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

[Thomas Koellmann]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.11-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Sound support completely broken; from /var/log/boot:

Mon May 29 14:49:52 2006: ^[[9;30]^[[14;30]Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'ALSA lib control.c:816:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
Mon May 29 14:49:53 2006: alsactl: set_controls:1088: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or directory'...ALSA lib control.c:816:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
Mon May 29 14:49:53 2006: amixer: Mixer attach hw:0 error: No such file or directory
Mon May 29 14:49:53 2006: ALSA lib control.c:816:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
[repeated several times]
Mon May 29 14:49:53 2006: ALSA lib control.c:816:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:1
Mon May 29 14:49:53 2006: amixer: Mixer attach hw:1 error: No such file or directory
[repeated several times]

Consequently, all sound software fails.

This is on an "Compaq Professional Workstation SP700" that had no
sound related problem since a few days ago. The machine gets updated
more or less every day; I'm sorry I can't say exactly when things
broke (or what update introduced the problem -- I'm filing this
report against alsa-utils because I do not know better). FWIW, sound
still works in a Red Hat installation on the same machine.

Custom kernel is build from:
ii  linux-source-2.6.16   	 2.6.16-14  Linux kernel source for version 2.6.16 with Debian patches

...but this standard kernel:
ii  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686-smp 2.6.16-12  Linux kernel 2.6.16 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP machines
...has the same problem.

There are 2 soundcards installed; one onboard ISA-PnP ESS ES1869
(es-18xx) and a PCI ESS Solo1 (es-1938).

thk at ishmael:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_es18xx             26688  1 
snd_es1938             16612  0 
snd_pcm_oss            47552  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16096  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                76836  3 snd_es18xx,snd_es1938,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          8328  1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib            8704  2 snd_es18xx,snd_es1938
snd_timer              20260  2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep               7300  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart         6176  2 snd_es18xx,snd_es1938
snd_rawmidi            20448  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6892  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    45664  11
snd_es18xx,snd_es1938,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7424  2 snd

Maybe also relevant:

ii  udev		  	 0.092-2    /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

Please let me know what other information would be useful.

Thanks!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-compaq-sp700-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.11-6       ALSA library
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-9        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.5-2          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.11-2       base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.1-5          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.2.2-2        tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                  2.4.27.0-5     Linux module utilities
ii  pciutils                  1:2.1.11-16    Linux PCI Utilities
ii  python-minimal            2.3.5-5        A minimal subset of the Python lan
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-4       Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                     1.0.11-2   ALSA driver configuration files

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