[LAU] Jack Error, dbus, x11???

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Jan 7 08:47:40 UTC 2014


On 01/06/2014 01:23 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Kevin Utter <kvutter at frii.com
> <mailto:kvutter at frii.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi all!  I'm running Ubuntu 12.10.
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> Possibly the worst distro (version) for using JACK. There is a bug in
> PulseAudio in this version of Ubuntu that makes it very hard to use JACK.
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> Upgrade, downgrade or prepare yourself for a lot of hassle.

I have Ubuntu 13.10 on my new laptop. JACK and Pulse seem to be getting 
along on it, in my very limited testing.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is out April 17, 2014.

> Then there is this:
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>     I'm trying to run jackd from a terminal outside of Infinity desktop.
>       (A separate login, I think?)  When I run jackd with the parameters
>     I need, I get the following:
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>     Failed to connect to session bus for device reservation Unable to
>     autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
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> this is a highly specialized use of JACK, and if you want to do this you
> either need to know and understand a lot more about D-Bus or you need to
> avoid using a version of jack with d-bus support builtin.

Sounds way more complicated than anything I've done!

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