From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charlie Ritter Subject: Re: Broken alsa-utils? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:57:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fu19lsf2.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fYGZj-0006Xy-MW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:58:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fYGZg-0007O4-KG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:57:59 -0400 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:37563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fYGZg-0007Ms-9V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:57:56 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47998210D3 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:57:52 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87fu19lsf2.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:05:05 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Since about a week or two ago, the alsa-utils tools such as amixer and > alsamixer fail to start: > >> amixer > ALSA lib dlmisc.c:292:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /gnu/store/5cbff8yc8f8qgcjrikmdf32pg4jy7inp-alsa-lib-1.1.6/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so ((null): /gnu/store/5cbff8yc8f8qgcjrikmdf32pg4jy7inp-alsa-lib-1.1.6/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device or address > > And the aforementioned file is missing indeed. > > I see that in commit 2101cc3fb691f443b830fdf5f846ded5fa018739 Julien > patched alsa-lib to use ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR. Could be the culprit? Put this in your ~/.asoundrc: pcm.!default { type hw card 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 }