IOError: [Errno Illegal combination of I/O devices] -9993

[Nikhil Alexander]

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*             JASPER - THE TALKING COMPUTER           *

* (c) 2015 Shubhro Saha, Charlie Marsh & Jan Holthuis *

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WARNING:root:tts_engine not specified in profile, defaulting to 'espeak-tts'

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline

ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream

INFO:client.stt:Transcribed: ['JASPER']

INFO:client.stt:Transcribed: ['']

ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:980:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params

ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:623:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to initialize slave

Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1669

Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1828

Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2087

Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2759

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "./../jasper.py", line 148, in <module>

    app.run()

  File "./../jasper.py", line 118, in run

    conversation.handleForever()

  File "/home/pi/jasper/client/conversation.py", line 31, in handleForever

    threshold, transcribed = self.mic.passiveListen(self.persona)

  File "/home/pi/jasper/client/mic.py", line 110, in passiveListen

    frames_per_buffer=CHUNK)

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pyaudio.py", line 714, in open

    stream = Stream(self, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pyaudio.py", line 396, in __init__

    self._stream = pa.open(**arguments)

IOError: [Errno Illegal combination of I/O devices] -9993

[Lee Melbourne]

Has anyone solved for this error?
I am trying to get 'Jasper' running on a Debian 9 VM and am getting this error.