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Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade



On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
>         root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart
>         [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done.
>         [....] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed
> with error message 'Home directory             /root not
> ours.'...Home directory /root not ours....
> Can anyone explain this error message and suggest a fix.

Hmm, that looks like some sort of permissions problem. For starters,
what does

ls -ld /var/lib/alsa
ls -ld /root

give you? Maybe someone else has a better idea on where to start
searching, or even exactly what the problem is.

Greg


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