Bug#539285: libao2: With alsa default mixer of type pulse, aumix startup complains that FAM is not started

Daniel Dickinson crazycshore at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 11:32:00 UTC 2009


Package: libao2
Version: 0.8.8-5
Severity: normal


I'm guessing /etc/init.d/aumix is the source of the error, but that's not 
certain as there is no prefix or other clear indication of what script the
error appears in.  However, the only script at the same level as FAM is aumix,
and an aumix messages appears before the error message, and the FAM startup
message appears after it.

>From /var/log/boot:

Thu Jul 30 06:28:35 2009: Saved ALSA mixer settings detected; aumix will not touch mixer.
Thu Jul 30 06:28:35 2009: FAM is not running ^[[31mfailed!^[[39;49m
Thu Jul 30 06:28:35 2009: Starting file alteration monitor: FAM.

I suspect this error is occuring because libao is doing something with pulse 
which isn't started yet because it's not set to start system-wide but is set
to be the default alsa mixer.

Come to think of it, now that I write this, if I move /etc/asoundrc ~/.asoundrc, this problem will probably go away.

I'll get back to you, but that may not fix it in the case of a system-wide
pulseaudio user, because pulseaudio starts after aumix.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libao2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libao2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libao2 suggests:
ii  libartsc0                     1.5.9-3    aRts sound system C support librar
ii  libasound2                    1.0.20-2   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2                     1.9.2-1    Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libesd0                       0.2.41-5   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.15-2   PulseAudio client libraries

-- no debconf information





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