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Recently installed gnome, which pulled down pulseaudio.
Since then shutdown hangs with error message:
Start job is running for Store Sound card state
(with a countdown in seconds).
Shutdown used to work fine with only alsa installed previously.
Reading through logs with journalctl showed nothing with respect to this issue.
Any ideas?
Last edited by firippusan (2014-05-19 02:36:06)
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does 'alsactl store' work if you run it from command line as root?
although, I'm quite sure pulseaudio saves sound card state by itself so you could try just disabling the service in question
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Thanks for your input.
I applied the "Removing old ALSA state file (asound.state)" section from the Alsa Archwiki page,
and the shutdown now works.
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And it hangs again...
tried killing pulseaudio before shutdown doesn't help.
Also alsactl store hangs in the terminal.
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as I said before, if you're using pulseaudio, you shouldn't need to run alsactl store/restore to save and restore your sound card state.
You can either just uninstall alsa-utils if you don't need alsamixer or any other tools in that package, or simply mask all the associated systemd services with
systemctl mask alsa-restore.service alsa-store.serviceuse systemctl unmask if you want them back later.
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Uninstalling alsa-utils did the trick.
Now shutdowns are still much slower than before pulseaudio was installed (it used to be instant),
as it hangs for a while and then finally kills pulseaudio, but at least the shutdown completes.
Thanks for the info.
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