Starting alsaconf at the console yields in: Configuring snd-*** Do you want to modify err? Configuring [lib/liblow.c(329)]: Do you want to modify /etc/modules.d/alsa? < Yes > < No > and a corrupted /etc/modules.d/alsa after answering yes. This error does not happens in a xterm (there the sound card snd-intel8x0 is correctly determined) or at the console, if gpm was started previously. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-hardened-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 6 2005, 16:34:26)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://mir1.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blas cardbus cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jai java javascript jimi jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-s ncurses network nls no-old-linux ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slp smime snmp spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis webdav wifi xanim xfs xine xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Actually, this is a problem of the "dialog" program called by alsaconf. See bug #100921.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100921 ***
