| 2008-09-10 13:51:48 |
C de-Avillez |
alsa-utils: statusexplanation |
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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. |
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