[LAU] Fedora 12 & CCRMA

[Rick Green]

...continuation of my adventures with Fedora12 + CCRMA:

OK, so I rebooted to get rid of the zombified jack.

I again launch qjackctl, and press the start button.
Progress!  No SELinux messages, and jack starts up.

I launch Ardour.  It presents a window new to me, asking about 'audio 
setup'.  I leave it at the defaults, and press 'start audio engine'.  It 
then tells me that jack is already running as another user.  Doh!
   So I think "Hey, they've improved Ardour, so I no longer need to use 
qjackctl to get jack started first.  Why won't they connect to an 
already-running jack, though??"  I close Ardour.
   I go back to qjackctl, and press 'stop'.  The display changes from 
'started' to 'stopping'.  I wait.  Nothing more happens, and it appears 
that after all the trouble getting jack started, now it won't stop!

...another reboot.  This is not acceptable.  It's looking too much like 
another OS I hate...

   Now I launch Ardour, and let it start jack for me.  I open a little test 
session containing only a single short track.  I press the 'play' button, 
and nothing happens.  I try hitting the space bar, and nothing happens.  I 
click on the timeline, and the playhead moves as expected.  I press the 
'return to zero' button, and nothing happens.
This was a session recorded with another version of Ardour (on US 10.04), 
so I think it might be a compatibility issue.  So I stop ardour, and then 
re-start it to open a new session and try that.  It gives me a message 
that it couldn't start jack because it was already running as another 
user.  This jack won't die, either:

[rtg at angel ~]$ killall jackd
[rtg at angel ~]$ ps aux | grep jack
rtg       2109 75.4  3.7  91232 77064 ?        RLsl 15:29  19:28 
/usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -p 128 -R -P 60 -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 48000 -p 
1024 -d hw:0,0
rtg       2206  0.0  0.0   4212   712 pts/1    S+   15:55   0:00 grep jack
[rtg at angel ~]$ kill 2109
[rtg at angel ~]$ ps aux | grep jack
rtg       2109 75.8  3.7  91232 77064 ?        RLsl 15:29  19:55 
/usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -p 128 -R -P 60 -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 48000 -p 
1024 -d hw:0,0
rtg       2208  0.0  0.0   4212   716 pts/1    S+   15:55   0:00 grep jack
[rtg at angel ~]$ kill -s 9 2109
[rtg at angel ~]$ ps aux | grep jack
rtg       2109 77.4  3.7  91232 77064 ?        RLs  15:29  21:54 
/usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -p 128 -R -P 60 -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 48000 -p 
1024 -d hw:0,0
rtg       2210  0.0  0.0   4212   716 pts/1    S+   15:57   0:00 grep jack

...I'm getting pretty sick of these reboots!

-- 
Rick Green

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