Bug 152103

Summary:	booting error message: "run_program: exec of program '/usr/sbin/alsactl' failed"
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Kay Sievers <kasievers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	tiwai
Version:	Beta 4
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Description Jon Nelson 2006-02-19 17:05:46 UTC

While booting I get the following message:

booting error message: "run_program: exec of program '/usr/sbin/alsactl' failed"

I get it around the time serial ports are being configured and swap devices are being activated.

It /may/ be preceted by 'udevd-event[1494]: ' and does appear /before/ "Starting udevd".

/usr/sbin is not available yet and that is likely why - udevd should wait until /usr/sbin is available before trying to use alsactl, or, alsactl should be moved to /sbin so that it is available for booting.

Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2006-02-20 11:30:11 UTC

Is /usr mounted via nfs?

Comment 2 Jon Nelson 2006-02-20 14:52:37 UTC

/usr is not mounted via nfs.
/usr is a logical volume provided by LVM

Comment 3 Kay Sievers 2006-02-21 17:31:45 UTC

That happens cause all tools to configure devices by udev are expected to be on the root filesystem and not on /usr. This is usually not a problem, cause the failing events will be applied later after all local filesystems are mounted.

Comment 4 Jon Nelson 2006-02-21 18:12:49 UTC

So is the solution to use one of my suggestions:

1. wait until /usr/sbin is available (or /path/to/program/but/not/program/itself) is available

2. move alsactl to /sbin

I guess I'd prefer [1] which would result in deferral(s) and/or eventual error?

Comment 5 Kay Sievers 2006-04-13 09:34:27 UTC

There is no need to wait, as the failing events are recorded and retried by /etc/init.d/boot.udev_retry.