cannot save alsa settings

[hyper_ch]

I have upgraded from Natty to Oneiric and I noticed that KMix didn't save the altered audio levels between reboots.

In the terminal I then run the following commands and the according inputs is all below:

hyper@doubi:~$ alsactl store
alsactl: save_state:1547: Cannot open /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for writing: Permission denied

hyper@doubi:~$ sudo alsactl store
[sudo] password for hyper:
Home directory /home/hyper not ours.

hyper@doubi:~$ sudo -i
root@doubi:~# alsactl store
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true

This is somewhat weird.

When I run it as normal user, it complains about not being able to store the file in /var/lib/alsa
When I run it as root with sudo, it complains about not being owner of my home folder
When I switch to root shell it complains about something else altogether...

root@doubi:~# alsactl --version
alsactl version 1.0.24.2

alsa-utils package is: 1.0.24.2-0ubuntu7

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dinexi (im-dinexi)]

You still can store the settings.

$ cd
$ sudo chown root .
$ sudo alsactl store
$ sudo chown `whoami` .

But this way is weird. :)