Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 50969
sound related errors with no sound adapter
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:22:19 EDT
Description of Problem: Roswell is installed (with X, etc) on a system with NO sound card installed. An error occurs during halt/poweroff: 1. modprobe cannot locate Sound-slot-0 2. aumix: error opening mixer Also, doing lsmod shows soundcore loaded. How Reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Roswell with gnome, kde, etc. 2. bootup and login as root (do lsmod) 3. logout 4. select shutdown-halt Actual Results: error messages during shutdown (see above) Expected Results: no error messages Additional Information: You have do login (gnome session). If you immediately just shutdown, then no error messages
This is because of two things: - the fix for bug #34758 - the fact that 'rmmod -a' doesn't run out of cron anymore I believe turning off sound support in Gnome may stop this.
Sound support was never turned on in gnome and esd is not started. However, something in gnome is loading the "soundcore" module. If I rmmod soundcore before logoff/shutdown, then the problem goes away. This answer is OK for me but may bother some novice users. I believe that whatever in gnome is loading soundcore (in error) should be fixed.
Removing sound-properties from your gnome session should do it.
Using gnomecc, I tried to remove everything I could. Is there something else because saying DON'T start esd still loads soundcore and results in the error.