On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Max wrote: Something more to add. If you are using a debian based distro (ubuntu for example) the jackd executable needs to be chmod -x or you will find odd things happen if you manage to crash jackdbus. Generally some well meaning program will come along and start jackd making qjackctl of no use and making module-jackdbus-detect unable to set up the pa-jack bridge. The command killall -9 jackd needs to be run. I now concider this has rissen above anoyance to bug. Jackd2 and jackdbus should be packaged separately. If needed the jackdbus version can come with a script that has jack_control's innards, but acts like jackd. (uses jackd's config file and takes jackd's arguments on the CL... may as well give it jackd's name too). For my use, all it would have to do is ignore the arguments and run jack_control start which would restart with the parameters I chose before or do nothing if it is already running. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net