alsa-project/alsa-lib issue #89 was opened from radiobla: TL;DR: After upgrading alsa-* packages yesterday, on the next reboot, systemd (apparently, pulseaudio.service) begun to show an error message related to "module-alsa-card" not finding a "working profile" for a USB MIDI device I have connected. Despite the error message, the device is working fine (through "raw MIDI" and also with jack2). Anyway, I want go further and find the root cause of this problem, since it's very annoying to see the Sound Service failing on every reboot. Here is my pacman.log from yesterday: **[ALPM] upgraded alsa-topology-conf (1.2.3-1 -> 1.2.4-1) [ALPM] upgraded alsa-ucm-conf (1.2.3-2 -> 1.2.4-1) [ALPM] upgraded alsa-lib (1.2.3.2-1 -> 1.2.4-1) [ALPM] upgraded alsa-utils (1.2.3-2 -> 1.2.4-1) [ALPM] upgraded lib32-alsa-lib (1.2.3.2-1 -> 1.2.4-1)** After a reboot, the Sound Service could start, but begun to show an error message. Taking a look on the systemd logs with journalctl -xe --user-unit pulseaudio I found this: systemd[1027]: Starting Sound Service... ... **pulseaudio[1037]: Failed to find a working profile. pulseaudio[1037]: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="3" name="usb-Roland_A-> pulseaudio[1037]: module-rescue-stream is obsolete and should no longer be loaded. Please remove it from> systemd[1027]: Started Sound Service.** I disabled the "load-module module-rescue-streams" on the default.pa, but the other issue persists. They seem not be related, IMO. I wanted to rule out that chance anyway. By stopping pulseaudio service through systemd and running pulseaudio -vvv manually, I got more verbose information. **E: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile. E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="usb-Roland_A-Series_Keyboard-00" card_name="alsa_card.usb-Roland_A-Series_Keyboard-00" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes avoid_resampling=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed. I: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Card /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-10/1-10:1.0/sound/card1 (alsa_card.usb-Roland_A-Series_Keyboard-00) failed to load module.** Regarding specifically to the following error message... **E: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.** What does it mean it is not finding a "working profile"? How could I investigate it further? It worth mentioning that the device (an USB Keyboard Controller) is working perfectly with jack2. I tested it with an "aseqdump". $ aseqdump -l Port Client name Port name 0:0 System Timer 0:1 System Announce 14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0 20:0 A-Series Keyboard A-Series Keyboard Keyboard $ aseqdump -p20:0 Waiting for data. Press Ctrl+C to end. Source Event Ch Data 20:0 Note on 0, note 41, velocity 76 20:0 Note on 0, note 40, velocity 82 Although the device is working even with the error message, it's very annoying to see a "failed service" on initialization. Thanks! More occurrences of this error were provided on Arch Linux forum: [](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1932801) Issue URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/issues/89 Repository URL: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib
