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waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 133

[SOLVED] ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

Hi arch folks,

after one upgrade I have problem with ALSA sound. I cannot start ALSA service and my MUTE led diod is still on.

% systemctl status alsa-state.service
● alsa-state.service - Manage Sound Card State (restore and store)
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-state.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Sun 2015-05-31 18:05:39 CEST; 1 day 4h ago
           ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

May 31 18:05:39 vulpes systemd[1]: Started Manage Sound Card State (restore and store).

I checked if file state-daemon exists and big surprise - it doesn't.

# cat /etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf                
cat: /etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf: No such file or directory

How can I create this file - /etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf?

Thx for your advice.

Last edited by waldauf (2015-06-04 21:08:57)

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: [SOLVED] ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

This file is a switch to choose between two schemes.
If it exists then the commands in 'alsa-state.service' will be used, otherwise the commands in 'alsa-(re)store.service' will be run.

In your case, the file doesn't exist, so it's the scheme with 'alsa-(re)store.service' that is used.

Look the output of:

systemctl status alsa-store.service
systemctl status alsa-restore.service

to see what the problem is.

waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 133

Re: [SOLVED] ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

I tried both command and the result is:

root@vulpes /mnt # systemctl status alsa-store.service
● alsa-store.service - Store Sound Card State
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-store.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

... and ...

root@vulpes /mnt # systemctl status alsa-restore.service                                      :(
● alsa-restore.service - Restore Sound Card State
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2015-05-31 18:05:39 CEST; 2 days ago
  Process: 402 ExecStart=/usr/bin/alsactl restore (code=exited, status=19)
 Main PID: 402 (code=exited, status=19)

May 31 18:05:39 vulpes systemd[1]: Starting Restore Sound Card State...
May 31 18:05:39 vulpes alsactl[402]: /usr/bin/alsactl: load_state:1735: No soundcards found...
May 31 18:05:39 vulpes systemd[1]: Started Restore Sound Card State.

My sound card:

$ lshw
~
        *-multimedia:0 UNCLAIMED
             description: Audio device
             product: Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
             version: 09
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:e0630000-e0633fff
~

I don't understand why I can see "No soundcards found..." when the sound card was always found.

Last edited by waldauf (2015-06-02 22:27:14)

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: [SOLVED] ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

This has already been discussed in another thread where I give a workaround to this issue:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1504404
There is also an explanation in the post #12 of the above thread.

This is a synchronisation problem: the 'alsa-restore.service' is started before the sound card is initialised in the systemd boot sequence.
So I run again the 'alsa-restore.service' 2min later with a timer to work around this.

Last edited by berbae (2015-06-03 09:38:14)

waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 133

Re: [SOLVED] ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

Thx berbae it seems that your advice helps me. :]

cat@lovefish

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Registered: 2015-12-15

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

open alsa-state.service,
only add "!"  as "=!/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf"
then,it worked!

Last edited by cat@lovefish (2015-12-15 10:57:36)