Smartcard reader issues since update to "Crimson"

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Greetings Forum,

I have upgraded to the “Crimson” release a few weeks ago and while globally not much has changed, I do notice that the smartcard reader seems to be rather unreliable now. I often get errors like

commands.c:249:CmdPowerOn Invalid slot numbers

and

ifdhandler.c:1317:IFDHPowerICC() PowerUp failed

and

winscard.c:344:SCardConnect() Card not Powered

when I do a systemctl status pcscd. It’s not a tremendous issue as I can simply restart pcscd and it works again, but I find it slightly annoying. This was not something I noticed in the “Byzantium” release. Has anyone else encountered this behaviour?

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Yes, I’ve encountered this behavior. Started occurring after upgrade to Crimson last week. Didn’t know about systemctl restart pcscd, so I just restarted the phone. Thanks for that pointer.

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Yes! I did that too in the beginning but after some digging I found this to be the best workaround at the moment. The thing is also that even after a restart it sometimes stops again.

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