[LAU] JACK_NO_AUDIO_RESERVATION

Christopher Arndt chris at chrisarndt.de
Sun Aug 26 20:22:38 CEST 2018


Am 26.08.18 um 16:35 schrieb Minie:
> Failed to connect to session bus for device reservation: Unable to
> autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11.
> To bypass device reservation via session bus, set
> JACK_NO_AUDIO_RESERVATION=1 prior to starting jackd.

This (setting JACK_NO_AUDIO_RESERVATION=1 in the environment) doesn't
work for me either, but I use the follwoing in a script to start jack
with no X session:

DBUS_SESSION="$HOME/.dbus-session"

# Add a fake X session
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
    echo "export DISPLAY=:0" > "$DBUS_SESSION"
    dbus-launch >> "$DBUS_SESSION"
    echo "export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" >> "$DBUS_SESSION"
    echo "export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" >> "$DBUS_SESSION"
fi

source "$DBUS_SESSION"
exec jackd -dalsa ...


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