[LAU] Too much information :(

[David Jones]

On Dec 30, 2016 08:29, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 15:46:34 +0000 
> Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote: 
>
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 22:38:31 +1100 
> > Roger <gurusonic at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > > On 18/12/16 19:46, Will J Godfrey wrote:  
> > > > All of this has happened since that latest fetch from debian testing :( 
> > > > Maybe I'm imagining things, but we seem to be getting a lot more breakages 
> > > > and general strange behaviour from debian these days. 
> > > >    
> > > Debian Stretch is in freeze transition preparing for next release. Soft 
> > > freeze happens on 5 Jan so many packages may be pushed to beat this 
> > > deadline causing testing to be at a fragile stage currently. 
> > > 
> > > https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2016/04/ 
> > > 
> > > Doesn't help fix your issue but may help explain why it happened. 
> > > 
> > > Roger  
> > 
> > Didn't think of that  :( 
> > 
> > Thanks, I can get round things for now. 
> > 
>
> Hmmm, my normal state of mild confusion has now progressed to considerable 
> agitation! 
>
> As an experiment I tried using jackd1. Result, none of these messages. However 
> debian doesn't provide headers for this so I can't compile against it. 
>
> Go back to jackd2 (lot's of arsing about to do that) and once again I get a 
> continuous stream of messages even when there is nothing running except 
> qjackctl, so I'm wondering if the nice people at debian have inadvertently 
> compiled it with a debug switch enabled. 
>
> Is there such a switch, and can it be disabled without re-compiling. 
>
> I generally avoid compiling low-level stuff - I don't want to end up having to 
> also compile all the kit that's dependent on the debian installs. 
>
> Below is a few *seconds* worth from qjackctl's message window. 
>
> Jack: JackEngine::ClientNotify: no callback for notification = 4 
> Jack: JackEngine::ClientNotify: no callback for notification = 4 
> Jack: JackExternalClient::ClientNotify ref = 2 client = qjackctl name = 
> qjackctl notify = 4 Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 
> fd = 10 Jack: JackClient::ClientNotify ref = 2 name = qjackctl notify = 4 
> Jack: JackClient::kGraphOrderCallback 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 
> Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Execute : fPollTable i = 2 fd = 10 

FWIW, I updated to JACKD2 from testing last night. I use mplayer on command line to play through JACK. And get​ the same results.

David W. Jones
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