Raspberry Pi OS 12 (Bookworm) released

[Tim Curtis]

Another oddness is the corrupted /home/pi/.asoundrc file after opening raspy-config and just looking at the Audio options :-0

You can track the Git issue here https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspi-config/issues/223

Code:

pi@dev64-bk:~ $ sudo raspi-config

pi@dev64-bk:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
ALSA lib conf.c:2007:(_snd_config_load_with_include) _toplevel_:18:1:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:4096:(config_file_open) /home/pi/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:4018:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:4625:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
aplay: device_list:283: control open (0): Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:2007:(_snd_config_load_with_include) _toplevel_:18:1:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:4096:(config_file_open) /home/pi/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:4018:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:4625:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
aplay: device_list:283: control open (1): Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:2007:(_snd_config_load_with_include) _toplevel_:18:1:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:4096:(config_file_open) /home/pi/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:4018:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument
ALSA lib conf.c:4625:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
aplay: device_list:283: control open (2): Invalid argument

# Note the card parameter is missing the card number

pi@dev64-bk:~ $ cat ./.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
  type asym
  playback.pcm {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "output"
  }
  capture.pcm {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "input"
  }
}

pcm.output {
  type hw
  card 
}

ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card 
}

Setting the Audio option to Headphones restores the config

Code:

pi@dev64-bk:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones]
 Subdevices: 8/8
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
 Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
 Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
 Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
 Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: vc4hdmi0 [vc4-hdmi-0], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: vc4hdmi1 [vc4-hdmi-1], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@dev64-bk:~ $