Can't install timidity if no sound card avalaible

[mariodebian]

Binary package hint: timidity

# apt-get install timidity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  pmidi
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  timidity
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 545kB of archives.
After this operation, 1729kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://192.168.0.3 hardy/universe timidity 2.13.2-19ubuntu1 [545kB]
Fetched 545kB in 0s (6233kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package timidity.
(Reading database ... 258670 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking timidity (from .../timidity_2.13.2-19ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up timidity (2.13.2-19ubuntu1) ...
   ...fail!
invoke-rc.d: initscript timidity, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing timidity (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 timidity
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Patch:

diff -Nru timidity-2.13.2/debian/timidity.init timidity-2.13.2/debian/timidity.init
--- timidity-2.13.2/debian/timidity.init 2008-05-28 16:44:30.000000000 +0200
+++ timidity-2.13.2/debian/timidity.init 2008-05-28 16:44:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -49,11 +49,10 @@
 case "$1" in
   start)
        #log_daemon_msg "Starting" "${NAME}"
- [ -d /proc/asound ] || {
- log_end_msg 1
- log_warning_msg "ALSA is not active, cannot start $DESC"
+ if [ ! -d /proc/asound ]; then
+ log_warning_msg "ALSA is not active, cannot start $DESC"
                exit 0
- }
+ fi
        log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC..."
        if start-stop-daemon ${START} >/dev/null; then
                log_end_msg 0

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log_end_msg return status != 0 and invoke-rc.d fails

Greetings

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Actually, I'm testing this based on the presence of /dev/snd because I've found a case where /proc/asound/ exists and /dev/snd/ doesn't, for which timidity still doesn't install.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This also causes exult to FTBFS:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16376161/buildlog_ubuntu-intrepid-amd64.exult_1.2-13_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package timidity - 2.13.2-19ubuntu2

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timidity (2.13.2-19ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Don't try to start the daemon if /dev/snd is missing (LP: #235515)
  * Stop the server on preinst (LP: #120810)

 -- Emmet Hikory <email address hidden> Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:34:45 +0900