[Jack-Devel] Jack won't start on boot

[John Rigg]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:00:27PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> On 07/19/2017 14:14, alex wrote:
>>
>> So now I can safely say that adding "DISPLAY=:0 before calling jackd  
>> did the trick and now I do get sound on boot.
>
>
> Why and how does jackd depend on DISPLAY?

Because it was compiled with dbus support. That makes jackd refuse
to start unless it thinks X is running. I recompile jack2 on Debian
without dbus for this reason.

John