Mixer program "aumix" completely fails to start. Rebuild from source package works

[Christian Iversen]

Binary package hint: aumix

I've been using aumix for automating mixing for several releases now.

Unfortunately, aumix seems to be completely broken in gutsy. All that happens when the program is started is this:

$ aumix
 aumix: SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK

I discovered that a fresh compile from package sources, as done below, solves the problem completely:

$ mkdir tmp && cd tmp
$ apt-get source aumix
$ cd aumix-2.8
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

(-us -uc build unsigned package, because I do not have the original GPG key)

I believe this severe regression qualifies for an SRU, under the rule:

[...]
 - Bugs which represent severe regressions from the previous release of Ubuntu
[...]

The program is 100% broken, while working fine in all previous releases of Ubuntu that I know of.

Furthermore, the problem seems to stem from a simple build error, and NO changes to source will have to be made.

A simple recompile and re-upload is enough to solve this irritating bug.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I cannot reproduce this problem on my machine.
I believe you could have a local problem; aumix depends on these libraries:

libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu9 in gutsy or libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu10 in gutsy-updates
libgpmg1 1.19.6-25 in gutsy
libncurses5 5.6+20070716-1ubuntu3 in gutsy

And explicitly build depends on these:

libgpmg1-dev 1.19.6-25 in gutsy
libncurses5-dev 5.6+20070716-1ubuntu3 in gutsy
libgtk2.0-dev 2.12.0-1ubuntu3 in gutsy

Can you check what versions you have installed on your system?
Of course it could also be an implicit dependency.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

This issue is covered in bug #145805. I've marked it as a duplicate.

[Christian Iversen (chrivers)]

Cesare: I have exactly those versions of those packages.

Did you try this on i386 or amd64? Since this is a packaging problem, it might only affect i386.

Anyway, I'll redirect further comments to bug 145805.