Bug#913374: Subject: mate-control-center: Sound does not work properly after upgrading libasound2-plugins
I am terribly sorry, but there was a serious typo:
I use MATE on Debian testing and the sound does **not** work correctly after the libasound2-plugins package was upgraded 1.1.6-1 to 1.1.7-2
Soramichi
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 14:36:51 +0900
Soramichi Akiyama <akiyama@m.soramichi.jp> wrote:
> X-Debbugs-Cc: akiyama@m.soramichi.jp
> Package: mate-control-center
> Version: 1.20.3-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I use MATE on Debian testing and the sound does work correctly after the libasound2-plugins package was upgraded from 1.1.6-1 to 1.1.7-2 via recent apt-get upgrade.
> Especially, the "sound" utility included in mate-control-center seems not working, maybe because of the changes introduced in the alsa side.
>
> What happens:
> - The "sound" utility in mate-control-center cannot tweak settings for the sound cards, although all the cards are properly listed.
> - More precisely, the "Hardware" tab shows all installed sound cards, but the "Settings for the selected device" column does not show anything for any card selected.
> - It also does not show some menus such as the one for testing the selected card, which used to be there.
> - Some applications cannot play sound even when I manually modify /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf to use the card I want to.
> - Totem and VLC (with the "default" sound card selected) work, but Firefox does not play sound.
> - The "Applications" tab of the "sound" utility does not show anything even when sound is playing.
>
> I guess the reason might be that alsa-plugins have installed new config files as shown in their change log
> (https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins_1.1.7-2_changelog)
> and MATE has to adapt to their changes in order to properly configure them.
>
> Soramichi
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages mate-control-center depends on:
> ii caja-common 1.20.2-5
> ii desktop-file-utils 0.23-4
> ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.1-1
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-1
> ii libc6 2.27-8
> ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-1
> ii libcairo2 1.16.0-1
> ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-6
> ii libcanberra0 0.30-6
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.10-1
> ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-3
> ii libdconf1 0.30.0-1
> ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-1
> ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-2
> ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-6
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.1-2
> ii libglib2.0-bin 2.58.1-2
> ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.1-2
> ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
> ii libmarco-private1 1.20.2-1
> ii libmate-desktop-2-17 1.20.3-2
> ii libmate-menu2 1.20.1-1
> ii libmate-slab0 1.20.3-1
> ii libmate-window-settings1 1.20.3-1
> ii libmatekbd4 1.20.2-1
> ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-3
> ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-3
> ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3
> ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
> ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.15-1
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
> ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1
> ii libxklavier16 5.4-3
> ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b1
> ii libxss1 1:1.2.3-1
> ii marco-common 1.20.2-1
> ii mate-control-center-common 1.20.3-1
> ii mate-desktop 1.20.3-2
> ii mate-icon-theme 1.20.2-1
> ii mate-menus 1.20.1-1
> ii mate-settings-daemon 1.20.3-1
>
> mate-control-center recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages mate-control-center suggests:
> ii gconf2 3.2.6-5
>
> -- no debconf information
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