On Fri Jun 19, 2026 at 7:55 PM EEST, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For about a month I'm having a strange issue with the USB audio. I did
> maybe 1 or 2 updates of -CURRENT during this time, but not sure when it
> has started exactly as it does not show up immediately.
>
> The issue is: I have a set of USB speakers which I use as the main
> output.
>
> After a few days of uptime (this time it was 3), the audio simply
> disconnects.
>
> In dmesg it looks like:
>
> ugen0.4: <Generic Philips SPA 20/93> at usbus0 (disconnected)
> umass0: at uhub0, port 9, addr 3 (disconnected)
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus6 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <Generic Masstorage 1.00>  s/n 20220701093627 detached
> (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Periph destroyed
> umass0: detached
> uaudio0: at uhub0, port 9, addr 3 (disconnected)
> pcm2: detached
> uaudio0: detached
> usbhid1: at uhub0, port 9, addr 3 (disconnected)
> hcons0: detached
> hidbus1: detached
> usbhid1: detached
>
> At this point, things appear quite strange. If I reconnect this device,
> it's not detected anymore, complete silence. Moreover, if I connect
> other USB devices, there are ignored by the system (no output in dmesg).
>
> The system has a builtin audio, but when this happens, switching to it
> does not help:
>
>> cat /dev/sndstat
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Realtek ALC897 (Rear Analog)> (play/rec) default
> pcm1: <Realtek ALC897 (Analog)> (play/rec)
> No devices installed from userspace.
>
> But I get no audio when I try to test it with e.g. 'mpv -ao oss'.
>
> That could be a hardware issue, but feels more like a bug in the
> USB/sound subsystem? Any ideas how to debug that?
>
> I'm running -CURRENT @ 0010c4b8a020dbeb81e61b71117d1caae9b044cc now.
>
> Roman

This could very well a cable or port issue. It's definitely not a sound
driver problem because the whole USB device disconnects, not just the
audio parts.

Christos

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