Re: [Alsa-user] Cannot use or remove 'alsa-modules'

[Frank B. <fb...@fo...>]

Hallo,
Adam Bogacki hat gesagt: // Adam Bogacki wrote:

> However when I try 'apt-get remove alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686'
> - intending a fresh install with a new kernel - I get
> 
> >>The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >>  alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686
> >>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> >>Need to get 0B of archives.
> >>After unpacking 3391kB disk space will be freed.
> >>Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> >>(Reading database ... 98414 files and directories currently installed.)
> >>Removing alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686 ...
> >>Storing ALSA mixer settings ... failed
> >>Shutting down ALSA (version 1.0.3): aborting. (sound used by PIDs 1449
> >>1480)
... 
> So I can't use the alsa-modules I have, but apparently
> cannot remove them either.

Some applications still use the sound (PID 1449 and 1480 in your
example), so dpkg fails. I guess, you need to stop all applications
that use sound and then do the remove.

$ /etc/init.d/alsa force-stop

might help, it kills those applications, that use sound, I think.

Ciao
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