[Wlug] ALSA hanging (Gentoo AMD64)

[Eric Stein]

Hi all,

I have a very strange problem.  Last night I updated all my packages and
rebooted.  On boot, alsasound started (boot runlevel), but while trying
to restore mixer levels, it hung.  I had to boot to a livecd and remove
alsasound from boot to even start my system.  I tried removing the old
state file (in case the format changed and it was breaking because of
that), but it wouldn't start without it.

    glamdring ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound start
     * One of the files in /etc/{conf.d,init.d} or /etc/rc.conf
     * has a modification time in the future!
     * Loading ALSA modules ...      [ ok ]
     * Restoring Mixer Levels ...
     * No mixer config in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state, you have to unmute
    your card!   [ ok ]
    glamdring ~ # cd /var/lib/alsa/
    glamdring alsa # l
    total 9
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  152 May 17 16:26 ./
    drwxr-xr-x 23 root root  568 May 17 03:17 ../
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 May 17 16:26
    .keep_media-sound_alsa-utils-0.9
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root 8073 May 17 12:50 asound.state.old
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  144 May 17 12:50 oss/
    glamdring alsa # mv asound.state.old asound.state    
    glamdring alsa # cd
    glamdring ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound zap
     * Manually resetting alsasound to stopped state.
    glamdring ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound start
     * Loading ALSA modules ...      [ ok ]
     * Restoring Mixer Levels ...

Which is where it hangs.  Other alsa programs like alsaconf and
alsamixer hang on startup, along with programs that attempt to use ALSA
to output sound.  I've tried reinstalling ALSA, I've tried
revdep-rebuild, I've done modules-rebuild, and I'm at my wit's end. 
None of it seems to make sense, and Gnome isn't very happy about not
having a sound output, so half of my GUI is missing.  If anyone has some
idea why this could be happening to me, please let me know.

Eric
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