The udev rule is triggered before /usr is mounted. The udev rule invokes /usr/sbin/alsactl which doesn't exist yet. Loading Linux 2.6.39-gentoo ... Loading initial ramdisk ... INIT: version 2.88 booting OpenRC 0.8.2 is starting up Gentoo Linux (x86_64) * /proc is already mounted, skipping * /dev is already mounted * Starting udevd ... [ ok ] * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ] * Waiting for uevents to be processed ... udevd[338]: exec of program '/usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0' failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have /usr on a separate partition 2. emerge =media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1 3. reboot
Portage 2.1.9.50 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.39-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL AdobeFlash-10.1 dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude=/lost+found/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk iconv java jpeg lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support readline sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" 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" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="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="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" 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 ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="gt68xx" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 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, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1 was built with the following: USE="(multilib) nls -doc -minimal"
I have exact the same problem too. On a new machine I've made a separate /usr and /var and got the same message. I don't think it is the ALSA problem, though. udev failed to start bluetooth daemon also. And one more thought. alsactl will try to read /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. In my case, when I have /var separate, I still have troubles restoring driver state.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken I found that article very informative. You're right, Dmitry, this isn't really an ALSA problem. Having a separate /usr partition affects many other applications that use udev. I have already reported essentially the same bug for VirtualBox (bug #368215). I think the best resolution, for me anyway, is to just stop having /usr on a separate partition.
I have the same problem, I installed my system followed the gentoo lvm2 installation document(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml), if this problem is considered not need to fix, I suggest update the document to warn user about this problem.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken convinces me too that this is not udev bug, but instead a more fundamental system change. Perhaps this bug should be closed and forwarded to a new Documentation assigned bug to collect and fix docs that suggest using separate /usr (and /var and tbd.)
(In reply to comment #5) > Perhaps this bug should be closed and forwarded to a new Documentation assigned > bug to collect and fix docs that suggest using separate /usr (and /var and > tbd.) Thanks for suggesting that. I wouldn't have thought of it. This is now bug #372317.
