On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 05:15:46PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > After a routine upgrade it seems I don't have any sound devices any more. >> > >> > More in detail: >> > >> > * The driver for my card (RME HDSP MADI, snd_hdpsm) is loaded. >> > * aplay -L tells me there is only the 'null' device. >> > * (re)starting /etc/rc.d/alsa doesn't change things. >> > * There is *no* /dev/pcm at all. >> > * /sys/class/sound only has a link to a timer device. >> > * No traces in dmesg or /var/log/messages of anything going wrong. >> > >> > I suspect udev fails to do the right things. >> > >> > * /etc/udev/rules.d is empty >> > * /etc/udev/udev.conf contains only the line >> > udev_log="err" >> > >> > This is a professional studio and I'm expecting clients tomorrow at 09:00. >> >> You could try udev from testing (I agree that probably udev is the >> culprit, though it has not been updated in core for some time). > > But the whole boot system seems to have changed - this machine > boots incredibly fast now (not that it matters, it's rebooted > at most once in a week). > > Some new info: I get complaints from udev in /var/log/errors.log > about files not being found in /lib/udev/rules.d. This would explain > things I guess. But when I look in /lib/udev/rules.d those files *do* > exist. So maybe things go a bit *too* fast (or out of order). If that > is the case, what can be done about it ? Could you attach your fstab and the relevant parts of your logs ("grep udev /var/log/errors.log")? -t