Debian Bug report logs - #1032129
alsa-utils: Silence on line in after reboot when using darkice

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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: Whiskydrinker <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version alsa-utils/1.2.8-1

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From: Whiskydrinker <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: alsa-utils: Silence on line in after reboot when using darkice
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:00:51 +0100
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.8-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Dear Maintainer,

sometimes I install a small streaming server that provides a MP3 stream using icecast2 and darkice
and the on board sound card  of a typical Intel chipset. (Tried this also with two different mainboards.)

The following has worked fine under Buster with alsa-utils 1.1.8-2. It fails starting with Bullseye or after
upgrading from from Buster to Bullseye.

You can also reproduce this quite easily.

- Installation is a minimal Debian using the netinstaller with just SSH and the basic system utilities chosen
from the setup.
- Afterwards the only additional packages that get installed are alsa-utils, darkice and icecast2.
- Do the basic configuration for icecast2.
- Do the configuration for darkice with the on board line in as the input device.
- Set everything (Line as input, recording level and record for the channel) in alsamixer.
- Add a service for darkice.
- Reboot.

Now with Buster there was a stream with audio after the reboot.

Starting with Bulleye there is also a stream but it's just silence. Darkice is running fine, though.

Now you open alsamixer. 

- Disable record on the channel.
- Switch the "Line" to "Mic" and back to "Line".
- Enable record on the channel again.

And now there's also audio with Bullseye and Bookworm.

Until you reboot. Then you have to that kind of workaround again.


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

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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                       30+20221128-1
ii  libasound2                 1.2.8-1+b1
ii  libatopology2              1.2.8-1+b1
ii  libc6                      2.36-8
ii  libfftw3-single3           3.3.10-1
ii  libncursesw6               6.4-2
ii  libsamplerate0             0.2.2-3
ii  libtinfo6                  6.4-2
ii  sysvinit-utils [lsb-base]  3.06-2

alsa-utils recommends no packages.

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

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