From: Jimmy@disposable.invalid   
      
   On 08/18/2021 03:24 PM, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:   
   > On 2021-08-17, Jimmy Johnson wrote:   
   >   
   >> It seems to be some config file problem.   
   >>   
   >> But downgrading packages is not needed.   
   >>   
   >> Remove alsa-lib and pulseaudio and then reinstall them. Just tested it   
   >> and it works.   
   >   
   > That suggests that you likely had one or more configuration file   
   > that needed some changes merged.  Slackware packages typically   
   > do not overwrite configurations, but rather leave new versions in   
   > /path/to/${cf-file}.new   
   >   
   > For example,   
   >   
   >     /etc/asound.conf.new   
   >     /etc/pulse/client.conf.new   
   >     /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.new   
   >     /etc/pulse/default.pa.new   
   >     /etc/pulse/system.pa.new   
   >   
   > I make a point, after updating packages, to look for such files   
   > (the doinst.sh script in packages typically removes any *.new   
   > files that are identical to an existing file), and for any that I   
   > find, I examine differences, and merge (or replace) as appropriate.   
   > Certainly any such file that was left "stock" in the previous version   
   > can reasonably simply be replaced for the new version, but where I've   
   > applied local configuration, a little more work is required.   
   >   
   > I hope this helps ...   
      
   According to Patrick the wrong version of libasound was installed.   
      
   Thu Aug 19 05:17:32 UTC 2021   
   a/aaa_libraries-15.0-x86_64-9.txz: Rebuilt.   
           Fixed wrong version of libasound.so.2.0.0.   
           Thanks to Eduardo Charquero and PiterPunk.   
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