On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 07:27:11 -0500 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After having run arch-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/bash one of the things I > do is to run alsactl store. > alsactl store returns error 125 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state no such > file or directory. Certainly there's no such file since when alsa > was run before arch-chroot got run on system boot /mnt/var/lib/alsa > directory was empty having just run pacstrap on /mnt. So since this > is supposed to work, could it be arch-chroot script fails to collect > and pass along enough of the right environment information to its > chrooted environment for alsactl store to run? Details are available > at: information at: > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=43f6670eb3bde26ad6491d2faa631625109f88d0 > As a sidenote: Why are you running alsactl store inside the chroot?