[LAU] qjackctl does not reflect state of jackd

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

On 05/24/2011 01:12 AM, Eric Steinberg wrote:
> Thanks, Paul.  If jack had not crashed, shouldn't rotter have continued
> to record?  Is there any way to establish why recording was interrupted?
>   This happened about a week after I had started recording on this system.

interesting usecase. i never run jack for that long... but i guess some 
people who are using it for museum exhibits do.

i think your best bet is to run jackd from the command line, using the 
"screen" tool, so that it continues even if you log out or your X11 
session dies.
i guess screen can be configured to have loads of line history, so that 
you could retain lots of error messages. or you run

jackd 2> jack_stderr.log > jack_stdout.log &

then you have it all in files right away.