asoundconf crashed with ValueError in set_default_card()

[Jordan]

Binary package hint: alsa-utils

I noticed after recent updates in Intrepid ( might have been after the switch from 2.6.26 to 2.6.27 ) that sound no longer works, I tried alsamixer but got an error saying something along the lines of 'file "default" not found' ( I no longer get the error and unfortunately did not save it ) I assumed that this meant that there was not defuault card set so I did "asoundconf list" which showed "Intel" then "asoundconf set-default-card Intel" which caused this crash.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/asoundconf
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: alsa-utils 1.0.17-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/asoundconf set-default-card Intel
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/asoundconf', 'set-default-card', 'Intel']
SourcePackage: alsa-utils
Title: asoundconf crashed with ValueError in set_default_card()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[vista killer (vistakiller)]

i confirm this bug. Asoundconf always crash

[John Doe (jodo-deactivatedaccount)]

Me too. When trying to set my Audigy2 Zs Pcmcia, I get the following Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/asoundconf", line 430, in <module>
    exit_code(set_default_card(sys.argv[2]))
  File "/usr/bin/asoundconf", line 348, in set_default_card
    (j, k) = sep.split(i)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

[marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra)]

Same here

# asoundconf list

Names of available sound cards:
ICH6

# asoundconf set-default-card ICH6

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/asoundconf", line 430, in <module>
    exit_code(set_default_card(sys.argv[2]))
  File "/usr/bin/asoundconf", line 348, in set_default_card
    (j, k) = sep.split(i)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Also got hit by it. Digging in I found the /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf was shipped with two keywords separated by a tab (\t) instead of spaces:

 - defaults.pcm.file_format
 - defaults.pcm.file_truncate

It happens that 'sep.split()' will not recognise \t as a valid separator, so the error. This gives us two options to resolve the issue:

(1) update the libasound2 package: update /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, replacing the \t by spaces on the affected lines; this can be done manually right now to bypass the issue.

(2) update the alsa-utils package: fix asoundconf so that whitespace will be accepted as a separator. I personally think this is the best option but I do not know what the maintainers would like.

Setting as triaged, Medium importance -- does not seem to hit everybody (I do not know why), but it is probably someting that should be milestoned.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

ah, forgot:

libasound2: 1.0.17a-0ubuntu2-ppa1 (Luke Yeavich's)
alsa-utils: 1.0.17-0ubuntu1

[spotter (spotter-yucs)]

bug still exists. bad as get notified to run asoundconf on upgrade.

hggdh's fix seems to fix it. unsure why it hasn't been fixed.

[vista killer (vistakiller)]

i have no more problem with this. I think the last update fix the bug

[afriseun (carel-kenweb)]

Got the same bug after updating when adding intrepid repositry.
Adding alsa-utils as per hggdh's post fixed my problem.