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Alsa errors during boot of Excalibur

Thought 'd make a separate thread for this, in a nutshell on excalibur I am still getting the alsa errors on boot-up for months now.

"GOTO alsa_restore_std has no matching label in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-alsa_restore_std",

and indeed there is no alsa_restore_std in that folder, maybe there should be one or the alsa rules file in there needs to be edited?

My temp workaround is to make a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ , 90-alsa-restore-rules, that overrides the existing rules file:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="sound", KERNEL=="controlC*", KERNELS!="card*", TEST=="/usr/sbin", TEST=="/usr/share/alsa", GOTO="alsa_restore_go"
GOTO="alsa_restore_end"

LABEL="alsa_restore_go"
TEST!="/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf", TEST=="/usr/sbin/alsactl", RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa -E XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/alsa/runtime restore $attr{device/number}"
TEST=="/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf", TEST=="/usr/sbin/alsactl", RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa -E XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/alsa/runtime nrestore $attr{device/number}"

LABEL="alsa_restore_end"

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ralph.ronnquist

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Re: Alsa errors during boot of Excalibur

Did you try

find /usr /var /etc -name '*90?alsa?restore?std*'

The file is somewhere.

You should also check

dpkg -S 90-alsa_restore_std

to see where it comes from.

greenjeans

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Re: Alsa errors during boot of Excalibur

Known issue, supposedly fixed, some links:

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ut … e.rules.in

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/issues/280

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ut … 17e53b41a8

An even easier workaround (have not tested myself): https://andrzej.langow.ski/2025/05/14/s … -ignoring/

I guess the fix never made it into trixie?

The file is somewhere.

I think it's just the LABEL + definition missing, not an actual file? Possibly:

LABEL="alsa_restore_std"
TEST!="@daemonswitch@", RUN+="@sbindir@/alsactl@args@ restore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"
TEST=="@daemonswitch@", RUN+="@sbindir@/alsactl@args@ nrestore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"

And from Ubuntu bugs:

I read the Debian bug which reports that although this was fixed in 1.2.14, there are Debian/Ubuntu patches that were not correctly updated which means the bug is still present in the latest packaging so I'm reopening this issue.

I don't have excalibur booted up right now, will boot up a live-session later and do some more testing.

Last edited by greenjeans (2025-09-07 16:51:50)

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Re: Alsa errors during boot of Excalibur

Okay, more info. The bug is in alsa-utils, in the 90-alsa-restore.rules file. Looks like alsa fixed it months ago, but then a patch from Debian broke it again so now I guess it's their bug, and it's still an issue in Trixie as of 2 days ago.

https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-bin/b … ug=1093057

The patch is also supposed to be a fix for some mics not working from what i've read.

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Re: Alsa errors during boot of Excalibur

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules

Here's the version in alsa-utils from their git:

# do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="sound", KERNEL=="controlC*", KERNELS!="card*",@extratest@ GOTO="alsa_restore_go"
GOTO="alsa_restore_end"

LABEL="alsa_restore_go"

ENV{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}="$attr{device/number}"

# mark HDA analog card; HDMI/DP card does not have capture devices
DRIVERS=="snd_hda_intel", TEST=="device/pcmC$env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}D0p", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo ALSA_CARD_HDA_ANALOG=$env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER} >> /run/udev/alsa-hda-analog-card'"

# check for ACP hardware
TEST=="device/device/acp3x-dmic-capture", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
TEST=="device/device/acp6x-dmic-capture", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
TEST=="device/device/acp63-dmic-capture", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
TEST=="device/device/acp-dmic-codec", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
GOTO="alsa_restore_std"

LABEL="alsa_hda_analog"
# restore configuration for profile with combined cards (HDA + digital mic)
TEST!="/run/udev/alsa-hda-analog-card", GOTO="alsa_restore_std"
IMPORT{program}="/usr/bin/cat /run/udev/alsa-hda-analog-card"
ENV{ALSA_CARD_HDA_ANALOG}!="", ENV{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}="$env{ALSA_CARD_HDA_ANALOG}"

LABEL="alsa_restore_std"
TEST!="@daemonswitch@", RUN+="@sbindir@/alsactl@args@ restore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"
TEST=="@daemonswitch@", RUN+="@sbindir@/alsactl@args@ nrestore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"

LABEL="alsa_restore_end"

And here's the current version in excalibur/trixie:

# do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="sound", KERNEL=="controlC*", KERNELS!="card*", TEST=="/usr/sbin", TEST=="/usr/share/alsa", GOTO="alsa_restore_go"
GOTO="alsa_restore_end"

LABEL="alsa_restore_go"

ENV{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}="$attr{device/number}"

# mark HDA analog card; HDMI/DP card does not have capture devices
DRIVERS=="snd_hda_intel", TEST=="device/pcmC$env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}D0p", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo ALSA_CARD_HDA_ANALOG=$env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER} >> /run/udev/alsa-hda-analog-card'"

# check for ACP hardware
TEST=="device/device/acp3x-dmic-capture", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
TEST=="device/device/acp6x-dmic-capture", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
TEST=="device/device/acp63-dmic-capture", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
TEST=="device/device/acp-dmic-codec", GOTO="alsa_hda_analog"
GOTO="alsa_restore_std"

LABEL="alsa_hda_analog"
# restore configuration for profile with combined cards (HDA + digital mic)
TEST!="/run/udev/alsa-hda-analog-card", GOTO="alsa_restore_std"
IMPORT{program}="/usr/bin/cat /run/udev/alsa-hda-analog-card"
ENV{ALSA_CARD_HDA_ANALOG}!="", ENV{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}="$env{ALSA_CARD_HDA_ANALOG}"

LABEL="alsa_restore_go"
TEST!="/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf", TEST=="/usr/sbin/alsactl", RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa -E XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/alsa/runtime restore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"
TEST=="/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf", TEST=="/usr/sbin/alsactl", RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa -E XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/alsa/runtime nrestore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"

LABEL="alsa_restore_end"

Last edited by greenjeans (2025-09-08 17:53:32)

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