[LAD] jackd not using jackdrc...

[Fokke de Jong]

normally yes, I run it as root, but also when running it as a normal user WITH the .jackdrc file in my home dir it’s not used.


> On Aug 2, 2018, at 18:40 , Hermann Meyer <brummer- at web.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 02.08.2018 um 14:59 schrieb Fokke de Jong:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> After migrating to a freshly installed system, it seems jackd has decided not to honor my settings in $HOME/.jackdrc anymore.
>> 
>> I have a (minimal, no deskop) install of ubuntu 17.10 and jackd1
>> 
>> when I startt my jack client it prints:
>> 
>> creating alsa driver ... hw:MADIFXtest|hw:MADIFXtest|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
>> 
>> but the contents of of ,jackdrc is:
>> /usr/bin/jackd -p512 -dalsa -r48000 -p64 -n2 -D -Chw:MADIFXtest -Phw:MADIFXtest
>> 
>> So I’m getting a period size of 1024 rather that 64.
>> 
>> copying .jackdrc to /etc/jackdrc also didn’t help.
>> 
>> Any idea why jack is refusing my settings?
>> This was working fine on my other system which should be more or less identical, but obviously i'm missing something rather crucial here…
>> 
>> thanks!
>> fokke
>> 
> 
> 
> Any chance that you run your system as root?