ubuntu 16.04 (upgraded to 17.10) audio problems - pulseaudio wrong architecture

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I found my mediaserver with ubuntu 16.04 suddenly having problems with audio.
Running aplay -l I was getting



ALSA lib conf.c:3357:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0



I tried to reinstall pulse & alsa, but no luck. Upgrading to 17.10 hasn't been useful on this problem.
But then I found that the pulseaudio & libasound packages installed on my system was for i386 arch, despite of my system running on with 64bit arch.
There hasn't been any way to restore 64bit version through apt, I had to access ubuntu mirrors and download those packages (and the related dependencies) manually: by installing these through dpkg I finally managed to have the audio device correctly working.



My question is: how could it be happened? how could I restore to a normal condition? my first concern is the next update I will need to install for those packages: I guess apt will try to remove amd64 version and to install i386 one at the first update of one of the interested packages.



The only option I have in mind would be to go through a new clean installation...










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    I found my mediaserver with ubuntu 16.04 suddenly having problems with audio.
    Running aplay -l I was getting



    ALSA lib conf.c:3357:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
    ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0



    I tried to reinstall pulse & alsa, but no luck. Upgrading to 17.10 hasn't been useful on this problem.
    But then I found that the pulseaudio & libasound packages installed on my system was for i386 arch, despite of my system running on with 64bit arch.
    There hasn't been any way to restore 64bit version through apt, I had to access ubuntu mirrors and download those packages (and the related dependencies) manually: by installing these through dpkg I finally managed to have the audio device correctly working.



    My question is: how could it be happened? how could I restore to a normal condition? my first concern is the next update I will need to install for those packages: I guess apt will try to remove amd64 version and to install i386 one at the first update of one of the interested packages.



    The only option I have in mind would be to go through a new clean installation...










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      I found my mediaserver with ubuntu 16.04 suddenly having problems with audio.
      Running aplay -l I was getting



      ALSA lib conf.c:3357:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
      ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0



      I tried to reinstall pulse & alsa, but no luck. Upgrading to 17.10 hasn't been useful on this problem.
      But then I found that the pulseaudio & libasound packages installed on my system was for i386 arch, despite of my system running on with 64bit arch.
      There hasn't been any way to restore 64bit version through apt, I had to access ubuntu mirrors and download those packages (and the related dependencies) manually: by installing these through dpkg I finally managed to have the audio device correctly working.



      My question is: how could it be happened? how could I restore to a normal condition? my first concern is the next update I will need to install for those packages: I guess apt will try to remove amd64 version and to install i386 one at the first update of one of the interested packages.



      The only option I have in mind would be to go through a new clean installation...










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      I found my mediaserver with ubuntu 16.04 suddenly having problems with audio.
      Running aplay -l I was getting



      ALSA lib conf.c:3357:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
      ALSA lib control.c:954:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0



      I tried to reinstall pulse & alsa, but no luck. Upgrading to 17.10 hasn't been useful on this problem.
      But then I found that the pulseaudio & libasound packages installed on my system was for i386 arch, despite of my system running on with 64bit arch.
      There hasn't been any way to restore 64bit version through apt, I had to access ubuntu mirrors and download those packages (and the related dependencies) manually: by installing these through dpkg I finally managed to have the audio device correctly working.



      My question is: how could it be happened? how could I restore to a normal condition? my first concern is the next update I will need to install for those packages: I guess apt will try to remove amd64 version and to install i386 one at the first update of one of the interested packages.



      The only option I have in mind would be to go through a new clean installation...







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