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Bug 508352

Summary: media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2 - aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Christopher Head <bugs>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo ALSA team <alsa-bugs>
Status: VERIFIED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Christopher Head 2014-04-22 03:39:40 UTC
I can't play audio on non-default devices.

Running aplay with no options, or with -D default, works fine. Running aplay with -D hdmi does not work, failing with this message:

aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory

Running it in strace, I see that the last interesting thing it does before printing that message is it tries to open /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p, which does not exist; it should probably be addressing pcmC1D3p instead.

Reproducible: Always




kruskal asound # aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=MID
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=MID
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=MID,DEV=0
    HDA Intel MID, ALC663 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
kruskal asound # ls -1 /dev/snd
by-path
controlC0
controlC1
hwC0D0
hwC1D0
hwC1D1
hwC1D2
hwC1D3
pcmC0D0c
pcmC0D0p
pcmC0D1p
pcmC0D2c
pcmC1D3p
pcmC1D7p
pcmC1D8p
pcmC1D9p
seq
timer
kruskal asound # cat cards
 0 [MID            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
                      HDA Intel MID at 0xf4900000 irq 53
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xf3080000 irq 17
kruskal asound # cat devices 
  1:        : sequencer
  2: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
  3: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
  4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
  7: [ 0]   : control
  8: [ 1- 9]: digital audio playback
  9: [ 1- 8]: digital audio playback
 10: [ 1- 7]: digital audio playback
 11: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback
 12: [ 1- 3]: hardware dependent
 13: [ 1- 2]: hardware dependent
 14: [ 1- 1]: hardware dependent
 15: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent
 16: [ 1]   : control
 33:        : timer
kruskal asound # cat pcm
00-00: ALC663 Analog : ALC663 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
00-01: ALC663 Digital : ALC663 Digital : playback 1
00-02: ALC663 Alt Analog : ALC663 Alt Analog : capture 1
01-03: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1
01-07: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1
01-08: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1
01-09: HDMI 0 : HDMI 0 : playback 1
kruskal asound # emerge --info
Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.12.13-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.12.13-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_Q_720_@_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     6036332 total,   3627640 free
KiB Swap:    8390452 total,   8390452 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.7.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo kruskal-local sunrise steam-overlay hawk777
Installed sets: @admin, @arm, @desktop, @games, @magicalgame, @misc, @net, @office
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-11.x dlj-1.1 Google-TOS Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE skype-eula"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 3 --load-average 8 --with-bdeps y --complete-graph y -1"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fakeroot fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
INSTALL_MASK="grub2-mkconfig"
LANG="en_CA.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs 8 --load-average 8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/steam /var/lib/layman/hawk777"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aio alsa amd64 archive bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdinstall cdio cli css cups custom-optimization cxx dbus double-precision dri dvd faac faad fat ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran gcrypt gif gimp glade gmp gnutls gtk hou iconv icu idn imap ipv6 java joystick jpeg laptop libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext modules mp3 mpeg multilib multiuser ncurses nls nntp nowin nptl ntfs ntp offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pdf plotutils png qt3support readline scanner sdl session sou spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 startup-notification stream svg symlink taglib theora thunar tiff truetype udev unicode usb vdpau videos vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs xattr xft xinerama xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_CA" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" SANE_BACKENDS="plustek" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XFCE_PLUGINS="logout menu" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-04-23 15:23:59 UTC
Would you please take the time to report this to upstream? I don't think it will gain the attention it deserves here.

http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
Comment 2 Christopher Head 2014-05-25 16:11:50 UTC
(In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #1)
> Would you please take the time to report this to upstream? I don't think it
> will gain the attention it deserves here.
> 
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel

Done. Will report on any updates.
Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-24 06:49:25 UTC
(In reply to Christopher Head from comment #2)
> (In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #1)
> > Would you please take the time to report this to upstream? I don't think it
> > will gain the attention it deserves here.
> > 
> > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
> 
> Done. Will report on any updates.

ALSA 1.0.28 is in Portage now, and Linux 3.15 has been released. Any reply from upstream? Can you retry with up-to-date packages?

Just trying to sort the *alsa* bugs in bugzilla after the 1.0.28 addition...
Comment 4 Christopher Head 2014-06-28 06:12:07 UTC
Sorry for the lack of update. Upstream claims it is not a bug and that one must use “-D hdmi:CARD=NVidia” instead. I originally found this when trying to track down why Linphone would not send its ring file through HDMI; since ALSA upstream claims it is not a bug, the bug must be in Linphone or one of its dependencies using the wrong output name, so I will investigate further and file a separate bug.
Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-28 09:16:57 UTC
thanks for following up!