It is a step helpful for the totally blind who are using the Talking Arch installation system. Without it, getting speech working reliably is complicated. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 19, 2018, at 7:00 PM, Øyvind Heggstad <mrelendig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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?