Home directory /home/tux not ours

[linuxhippy]

I just upgraded from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. It was very easy and the only thing now that's messed up is my sound card. When I first installed 9.04 I had the same problem...the card kept getting muted. I did this to fix the card and save the settings a couple months ago:

sudo alsa force-reload
sudo alsactl store

That worked but now the card is muted again. sudo alsa force-reload works fine but after sudo alsactl store I get this:

Home directory /home/tux not ours

my user is named tux.

What needs to be done?

[geoaraujo]

I just upgraded from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. It was very easy and the only thing now that's messed up is my sound card. When I first installed 9.04 I had the same problem...the card kept getting muted. I did this to fix the card and save the settings a couple months ago:

sudo alsa force-reload
sudo alsactl store

That worked but now the card is muted again. sudo alsa force-reload works fine but after sudo alsactl store I get this:

Home directory /home/tux not ours

my user is named tux.

What needs to be done?

Two years later, it still occurs, Kubuntu 11.10. :(

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Are you in the audio group?

[geoaraujo]

Are you in the audio group?
How can I know? Single user, so I suppose yes.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

In a terminal:

groups

this should show you if you are in the admin group

or to look at all the groups

nano /etc/group

[geoaraujo]

In a terminal:

groups

this should show you if you are in the admin group

or to look at all the groups

nano /etc/group

It seems that I'm not:
$ groups
george adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare vboxusers

I've added audio, and it seems that I was able to save alsamixer settings. Thanks for the tip.