Re: [LAD] Problem with recent hdspm, alsactl and systemd

Hello all, 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.