Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

[Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net>]

On 09/21/2013 02:39 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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

In reply to your question:

root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29  2012 /var/lib/alsa
root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root
drwx------ 15 gary gary 4096 Sep  3 18:21 /root

I use /root for a ebook editor and nothing  else.

Gary R