I installed Ubuntu 14.04 two days ago and I get the same error. But not always, I didn't understand why.
$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 9.5G 364M 8.7G 4% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 1.8G 4.0K 1.8G 1% /dev tmpfs 371M 1.2M 369M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 1.9G 80K 1.9G 1% /run/shm none 100M 28K 100M 1% /run/user /dev/sdb11 151G 142M 144G 1% /home /dev/sdb7 19G 2.9G 15G 17% /usr /dev/sdb8 9.1G 667M 8.0G 8% /var /dev/sdb9 9.1G 22M 8.6G 1% /tmp /dev/sda2 233G 229G 4.4G 99% /media/marco/HD_ext_02 ** Attachment added: "Picture of the message "systemd-udevd[421]: failed to execute '/usr/sbin/alsactl' ...: No such file or directory"" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/1289730/+attachment/4091245/+files/IMG_8767a.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289730 Title: systemd-udev fails to execute alsactl during start-up if /usr and/or /var are separate volumes Status in “alsa-utils” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: During system startup systemd-udev will print the following error messages: [ 15.089778] systemd-udevd[683]: failed to execute '/usr/sbin/alsactl' '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/var/run/alsa restore 0': No such file or directory [ 15.090130] systemd-udevd[684]: failed to execute '/usr/sbin/alsactl' '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/var/run/alsa restore 1': No such file or directory alsactl is present: $ which alsactl /usr/sbin/alsactl but on a separate partition: $ df -h /usr/sbin/alsactl Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf /dev/mapper/scaleo-usr 12G 6,6G 4,1G 62% /usr $ df -h /var Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf /dev/mapper/scaleo-var 7,3G 2,5G 4,4G 37% /var This suggests that systemd-udev is called before all local partitions have been mounted. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) Release: 14.04 $ apt-cache policy udev udev: Installiert: 204-5ubuntu13 Installationskandidat: 204-5ubuntu13 Versionstabelle: *** 204-5ubuntu13 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Kind regards, Dominik To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/1289730/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
