Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

[Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net>]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> 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 do stand to be corrected, but I think that's the problem. I haven't
yet come across a system where /root was owned by some user other than
root. Try this:

chown root.root /root

and try starting alsa again.

Greg


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