[LAU] Qjackclt cramps

[david]

On 03/07/2012 11:59 AM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> On 03/07/2012 10:42 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I wonder if I'm the only one experiencing this problem with
>> Qjackctl. Anyway I haven't seen any other reports of it.
>> The problem is so obvious that I myself never bothered to
>> report it - it's the thing you exect fixed in the next
>> release. But apprently it never gets fixed.
>>
>> To the facts now: almost every day when I use it, and for
>> the last years, Qjackctl get into some cramp in which it
>> either
>>
>> - refuses to make some connections,
>> - or refuses to show them,
>> - or makes them and then disconnects them immediately.
>>
>> I don't know what triggers this, but it could be related to apps
>> making lots of ports connections in a short time and Qjackctl's
>> idea of current connections getting out of sync with reality.
>> Given Jack's APi for this that is no big surprise, but what really
>> messes up things is that Qjackctl apparently has no means to recover
>> and refresh its connections database from scratch. The only option
>> is to terminate it (which takes Jack and all apps with it, unless
>> Jack was started separately).
>>
>> Ciao,
>
> Hello Fons,
>
> I recognize the symptoms, I even recall having talked about it with Rui
> on his blog/forum (or maybe on a SourceForge tracker of one of his
> projects, probably Qtractor) but can't find anything back about it
> anymore. And yes, it's such an obvious issue that likewise I didn't
> bother either to report it.
>
> Best,
>
> Jeremy

Hmm, have never encountered it. Using whatever version of the software 
is in Debian Sid. But probably the software I use doesn't rapidly fire 
off a bunch of connections. I do wonder why you'd want to do that, but 
whatever ...

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