[linux-audio-user] jack - could not attach as client

[Florian Schmidt]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:20:27 +0000
rob canning <rscanning at eircom.net> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I had jack working until in installed jack-audio-connection-kit-devel
> (which i needed in order to build pd from source with jack capabilities
> enabled.
> now jack wont start, i get this error:
> 
> 18:12:05.824 Could not connect to JACK server as client.
> cannot read connection request from client
> cannot complete new client connection process
> could not attach as client (duplicate client name?)
> any ideas?
> thanks
> rob
> 
> planetccrma + fedora core 2 + 
> 
> 18:07:20.101 /usr/local/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p2048 -n2
> 18:07:20.114 JACK was started with PID=6972 (0x1b3c).
> jackd 0.99.10
> 


Well, if you used a jack package shouldn't jack be in /usr/bin then? Do you
maybe have two different versions of jackd and libjack [one in /usr and one
in /usr/local]? This often leads to trouble..

flo