Settings made by qasmixer are lost on next reboot

[Aere Greenway]

I use qasmixer to set the "Synth" volume to full, on my SoundBlaster Live sound-card.

On prior levels of Ubuntu (through 18.04), any settings I make are preserved over reboots.

On the latest level of Ubuntu (18.10) the settings are effective only as long as the system is running. The next time I reboot, the settings are gone, and I have to use qasmixer to set them all over again.

I expected the settings made by qasmixer to be preserved on the next reboot, as with past levels of Ubuntu.

The settings made by qasmixer are not preserved over a reboot on Ubuntu 18.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: qasmixer 0.21.0-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Tue Oct 23 14:59:06 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-23 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release i386 (20181017.2)
SourcePackage: qastools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Terry Belton (tezzy)]

I am using a stock Ubuntu Studio 20.04 on a Dell Optiplex 3020.

After every cold start or reboot the left channel returns to 0% volume.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

I don't believe this is a bug with qastools since it simply tells alsa what to do. Also, the issue can be duplicated on alsamixer. qasmixer itself doesn't save anything, neither does alsamixer. Something somewhere isn't remembering between reboots, but it's definitely not qastools related.

[Mauro Gaspari (ilvipero)]

I noticed the same bug affecting me on 3 installs:

1. Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 with Ubuntu Studio tools. Desktop, USB audio interface.
2. Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 with Ubuntu Studio tools. Laptop, Internal Audio card.
3. Ubuntu Studio 20.10 daily. Desktop, USB audio interface.

I do not think the issue is specifically of QASmixer. I tried to manipulate ALSA volume settings using alsamixer and and alsactl store, both with normal user and using sudo. Volume settings persist in the session, if I close and reopen QASmixer or alsamixer, but all volume settings are reset on reboot.

[Franny FooFoo (franny23dmt)]

I have been frustrated by this before on several distro versions. in settings, there is the option of "from last session" in the startup section. i assume you have this selected, as well as "close to system tray" and "show tray icon" in the system tray section. a problem is, that when you "close to tray" via the close window icon you are not actually exiting the program, your setup is only written as permanent when you exit the program. (select "close qasmixer" from the tray icon,or CtrlQ from the main qasmixer window, this writes your preferences / setup to file. note : rebooting doesnt "close qasmixer". please excuse my overly verbalness, I'm not trying to talk down to you, 'tis my long winded way of preparing for my question to you: is qasmixer still running / not being fully shutdown before reboot? perhaps qasmixers process tree still has branches?

[Aere Greenway (aere)]

On 1/18/23 06:23, Franny FooFoo wrote:
> I have been frustrated by this before on several distro versions. in
> settings, there is the option of "from last session" in the startup
> section. i assume you have this selected, as well as "close to system
> tray" and "show tray icon" in the system tray section. a problem is,
> that when you "close to tray" via the close window icon you are not
> actually exiting the program, your setup is only written as permanent
> when you exit the program. (select "close qasmixer" from the tray
> icon,or CtrlQ from the main qasmixer window, this writes your
> preferences / setup to file. note : rebooting doesnt "close qasmixer".
> please excuse my overly verbalness, I'm not trying to talk down to you,
> 'tis my long winded way of preparing for my question to you: is
> qasmixer still running / not being fully shutdown before reboot? perhaps
> qasmixers process tree still has branches?
>
Thank you for the additional information.  I didn't realize how it works.

I haven't been using it lately, because I mainly used it to change the
synthesizer volume level of soundcards having hardware synthesizers on
them (the Soundblaster Live, for example), and such soundcards can now
only be used on my oldest machines.

--
Sincerely,
Aere