[LAD] Problem with recent hdspm, alsactl and systemd

[Dominique Michel]

Le Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:35:35 +0200,
Dominique Michel <dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch> a écrit :

> Le Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:02:48 +0000,
> Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> a écrit :
> 
> > Hello all,
> 
> Hello Fons,
> 
> > 
> > I wonder if any other users have experienced this problem and
> > how they handled it.
> > 
> > This has occured three times when doing an fresh Archlinux install
> > on a system using the RME MADI cards.
> > 
> > There seems to be something in the combination of recent versions
> > of the driver and alsactl that leads to alsactl freezing when the
> > configured (external) clock source for the card is not available.
> > The 'freeze' seems to be quite deep: it's impossible to kill the
> > process (even while that process is still a child of e.g. the 
> > xterm from which it was launched, and not of PID 1). Any other
> > process trying to access the sound card (e.g. jackd) hangs in
> > the same way. This also means that when doing a poweroff or reboot
> > systemd will hang on the 'alsactl store' service, and the only
> > option is a power cycle.
> > 
> > An added difficulty when trying to resolve this (things will be
> > OK once you have the correct /var/lib/alsa/asound.state) is that
> > recent systemd doesn't allow to disable or enable the alsa store/
> > restore services easily (why not ?), you have to manually edit 
> > some symlinks in order to do that. 
> 
> I don't know systemd at all. As a temporary workaround for alsa
> store/restore, maybe you can mask the module
> in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and load it later.

Obviously, this will not work with alsa store.

> 
>  
> > Note: if this happens to be a driver problem, please do NOT revert
> > to the ancient behaviour of silently changing the clock source to
> > 'internal' when the external clock is not available. I DO still
> > expect to see opening the device fail if the external clock isn't
> > present, as has been the case for some time. The thing that
> > shouldn't happen is that alsactl chokes on this condition - it
> > didn't before so it shouldn't have to.
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > 
> 
> 


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