Debian Bug report logs - #1003656
alsa-utils: upgrade to version 1.2.6-1 breaks PulseAudio

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Package: alsa-utils; Maintainer for alsa-utils is Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for alsa-utils is src:alsa-utils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Antonio <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:57:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version alsa-utils/1.2.6-1

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From: Antonio <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: alsa-utils: upgrade to version 1.2.6-1 breaks PulseAudio
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:52:38 +0100
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Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.6-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
I use PulseAudio by starting it as a service:

---

[Unit]
Description=PulseAudio system server

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --system --realtime 
--log-target=journal

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

---

but after updating the alsa-utils package from version 1.2.5-2 to 
version 1.2.6-1, pulseaudio does not start and the status of the service 
returns this error:

PulseAudio [1620]: Failed to Load Module "Module-Native-Protocol-Unix" 
(Argument: ""): Initialization Failed.

I have compared the contents of the two packages and I noticed that the 
services:

- alsa-state.service
- alsa-restore.service

have been moved from the path "/usr/lib/systemd/system" -> 
"/lib/systemd/system" and this create the problem.

ln -sfn 
/lib/systemd/system/{sound.target.wants,alsa-restore.service,alsa-state.service}
/usr/lib/systemd/system/

And this time, at reboot, everything worked.

I think it is necessary to create this symlinks in the post-installation 
script to avoid interruptions of the audio system.

Thank you,
Antonio



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Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#1003656; Package alsa-utils. (Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Antonio <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Bug#1003656: Acknowledgement (alsa-utils: upgrade to version 1.2.6-1 breaks PulseAudio)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:47:51 +0100
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I thought I solved it, but it wasn't the problem, the next reboot has 
recurred.

However, after more than a reboot, the downgrade to the previous 1.2.5 
version works.

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