Comment # 2 on bug 916773 from Tony Jones

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #1)
> but the error wasn't reported.

The reporters system has the console loglevel set to 7, he doesn't have rsyslog
running (which normally lowers it to 1) or quiet on the command line (which
normally lowers it to 4).    It seems something has changed in the install
process.