After emerging the latest version of alsa-utils (1.0.5), /etc/init.d/alsasound will not run sighting syntax errors. After further investigation, I found this in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=216054 There is a typo in the script on line 194 -- "the" should be "then." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/alsasound start Actual Results: * ERROR: "/etc/init.d/alsasound" has syntax errors in it; not executing... Expected Results: * ALSA Detected... * Restoring Mixer Levels [ ok ] # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -ftracer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/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=athlon-tbird -O2 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -ftracer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.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="X Xaw3d acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr cjk crypt cscope cups curl dga encode esd ethereal evo f77 fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib innodb java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mbox memlimit mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png pythonqt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl scanner sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svgatcltk tcpd tetex threads truetype usb videos wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62152 ***