Bug 72849 – alsasound init-script of media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.7 depends on modules support in kernel - should not be

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Martin Wegner 2004-11-29 12:49:24 UTC]

The /etc/init.d/alsasound script depends on module support to be activated in the kernel but alsa works perfectly without it, too.

I get the following messages:

# /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
 * WARNING:  you are stopping a boot service.
 * Unloading ALSA ...                                                     [ ok ]
 * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels                                              [ ok ]
 * Unloading modules
Opening /proc/modules: No such file or directory
Opening /proc/modules: No such file or directory                          [ ok ]
 * Loading ALSA drivers ...
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.9-ck3/modules.dep: No such file or directory
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.9-ck3/modules.dep: No such file or directory                                                                       [ ok ]
 * Restoring Mixer Levels                                                 [ ok ]

The script is calling commands that only seem to work with module support enabled but those commands aren't needed since ALSA works even when they fail like above.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.7
2. [kernel w/o module support]
3. /etc/init.d/alsasound restart

Actual Results:  
Getting error messages like above.

Expected Results:  
No error messages.

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.9-ck3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-ck3 i686 AMD Duron(tm)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6
distcc 2.18 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -ftracer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm ared avi berkdb
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stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype usb userlocales
videos wxwindows x86 xchattext xfs xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xsl xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-11-29 13:32:47 UTC]

fixed in cvs, thanks.