Ubuntu
alsa-utils package

  1. Bug #352732
  2. Comment #69

Comment 69 for bug 352732

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 352732] Re: [jaunty] Sound muted after boot

They're created at package creation time by dh_installinit(1). It's
interesting that removing them resolves the issue for you. Can you
verify that they're in fact storing muted settings? You may need to
modify /etc/init.d/alsa-utils to write timestamps out to a file in
/var/tmp or something...