Bug 102015 – media-sound/alsa-utils alsasound init script does not fail if needed modules are not found

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-08-10 10:58:23 UTC]

Background:
After updating a kernel I sometimes forget to rebuild modules so when I boot I
have the alsa modules missing. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/alsasound stop (make sure that the modules are not loaded)
2. rm /lib/modules/<kernel>/alsa-driver/acore/snd.ko
3. /etc/init.d/alsasound start
4. /etc/init.d/alsasound status

Behaviour:
It gives a bunch of errors as expected but alsasounds status still reports
alsasound as started but it is most certain that sound is not working. 

Expected:
When one of the modules is missing the init script should stop executing and
report failure with for example return 1.

[Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2006-09-30 11:15:15 UTC]

Still present in alsa-utils-1.0.12

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-10-01 21:54:03 UTC]

The problem is that one might be using built-in static support for ALSA, which would break if we check modules presence.

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2007-02-18 14:00:54 UTC]

I've fixed it in 1.0.14_rc2-r1 without revbump, as I just added it yesterday, and this is a minor problem anyway.