Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.1.8-1
Severity: important
File: /lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service
Hi,
On my newly installed laptop, the volume is never saved and restored
It seems that the "alsa-restore.service" is never "started/stopped"
because there is a condition not met:
$ systemctl status alsa-restore.service
● alsa-restore.service - Save/Restore Sound Card State
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service; static; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Mon 2019-03-25 10:25:34 CET; 1h 15min ago
Docs: man:alsactl(1)
mar 25 10:25:34 edoras systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Save/Restore
Sound Card State being skipped.
Looking a bit further it seems that /var/lib/alsa/asound.state doesn't
exist.
That means that we are facing a chicken-egg problem here, the file will
never be created as the service is never started (and then never
stopped).
An option might be to create an empty file in the postinst script on the
first installation. An empty file will cause the "alsa restore" command
to fail with return code 99 but the systemd service will still be marked
as "active (exited)" and the ExecStop will be executed on shutdown
meaning that the volume will be saved. (Wouldn't that cause issue with
some setup?)
AFAICS, it's a regression and we might want to get this fixed in buster,
if you think it should be the case, please make this bug RC.
Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville
-- 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)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii kmod 26-1
ii libasound2 1.1.8-1
ii libc6 2.28-8
ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.8-2
ii libncursesw6 6.1+20181013-2
ii libsamplerate0 0.1.9-2
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2
ii lsb-base 10.2019031300
ii whiptail 0.52.20-8
alsa-utils recommends no packages.
alsa-utils suggests no packages.
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