Subject: No beep after a reboot

From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:01:48 +0000

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.6-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

  A beep could not be produed

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

  Creating a beep with:

  sound=$(printf '\007')
  printf "$sound" > /dev/tty

   * What was the outcome of this action?

  No sound.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

  The usual, a beep.

###

  First noticed after an "fsck ..." forced a reboot in "checkroot.sh"

  Also occures after a "shutdown -r now".

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

Kernel: Linux 5.15.15-2 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  kmod              29-1
ii  libasound2        1.2.6.1-1
ii  libatopology2     1.2.6.1-1
ii  libc6             2.33-5
ii  libfftw3-single3  3.3.8-2
ii  libncursesw6      6.3-2
ii  libsamplerate0    0.2.2-1
ii  libtinfo6         6.3-2
ii  lsb-base          11.1.0

alsa-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages alsa-utils suggests:
pn  dialog  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils changed [not included]
(added option --no-ucm;  has no effect on bug)

-- no debconf information

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason