PGP smartcard (yubikey) disappears after a while

Describe the bug

I've been using a yubikey as a gpg smartcard for signing for a long time on my NixOS without an issue. Recently it started to often break and requiring a reboot for it to work again.

Steps To Reproduce

I have tried, but I can't pin it down. It might be related to

suspending and resuming (but not reproducably)
connecting and disconnecting a USB microphone (but not reproducably)
connecting and disconnecting an external hard drive (but not reproducably)

Expected behavior

Smart card always work. Instead, it works fine until some moment it says it is not connected and re-plugging it does not do anything.

Additional context

It's a USB type A connecting yubikey, but problem happens on in-laptop slot and on a USB hub. Laptop is Framework 14.

Notify maintainers

maybe @michaeladler
maybe @liclac
maybe @fpletz
maybe @vrthra

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.47, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.4326.36bae4507766`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.5`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-24.05"`
 - nixpkgs: `/home/steven/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs`

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