[SOLVED] Lenny upgrade to OSS 4.1: mixed results

[bezdomny]

OSS expired and needed to be upgraded. Downloaded and installed oss-linux-4.1-1051_i386.deb.

Results:

XMMS playback is good. Skype playback is good. Skype input fails.

command osstest:

SNDCTL_SYSINFO failed: Invalid argument
Cannot get system information. Perhaps you are not running OSS 4.x
but some slightly incompatible sound subsystem.

command ossdetect -v:

/usr/lib/oss/etc/devices.list: No such file or directory

command soundon:

cat: /usr/lib/oss/version.dat: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/oss/etc/devices.list: No such file or directory
No /usr/lib/oss/etc/installed_drivers - cannot continue

command ossmix:

Error: OSS version 3.9 or later is required

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you need more info.

Thanks!

[bezdomny]

Manually purging the dpkg status file with this procedure and then re-installing OSS with command dpkg -i oss-linux-4.1-1051_i386.deb resulted in a successful installation. Commands osstest and ossdetect -v are now nominal, aumix is now nominal, and I now have both input and output with Skype. Thanks to temujin at the OSS community at 4front.com for the solution.