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Bug#959170: linux: at boot: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl ... restore 0' failed with exit code 99

From Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#959170: linux: at boot: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl ... restore 0' failed with exit code 99
Date 2021-05-08 18:40 +0200
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FYI, other users got the same error:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848395
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1568772
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/1624435
  https://bugs.gentoo.org/578138

In Debian bug 848395: as said by the alsactl(1) man page:

    init tries to initialize all devices to a default state.
    If device is not known, error code 99 is returned.

I can see 2 possibilities:

1. For some reason, the device is not always initialized by the
   kernel.

2. There is a race condition: alsactl is run too soon, while the
   device has not been initialized yet by the kernel.

(2) would explain why this isn't always reproducible.

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Bug#959170: linux: at boot: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl ... restore 0' failed with exit code 99 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2021-05-08 15:00 +0200
  Bug#959170: linux: at boot: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl ... restore 0' failed with exit code 99 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-05-08 18:20 +0200
    Bug#959170: linux: at boot: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl ... restore 0' failed with exit code 99 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-05-08 18:40 +0200
    Bug#959170: linux: at boot: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl ... restore 0' failed with exit code 99 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2021-05-08 21:00 +0200

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