16 May
2010
16 May
'10
9:59 p.m.
...continuation of my adventures with Fedora12 + CCRMA:
OK, so I rebooted to get rid of the zombified jack.
I again launch qjackctl, and press the start button.
Progress! No SELinux messages, and jack starts up.
I launch Ardour. It presents a window new to me, asking about 'audio
setup'. I leave it at the defaults, and press 'start audio engine'. It
then tells me that jack is already running as another user. Doh!
So I think "Hey, they've improved Ardour, so I no longer need to use
qjackctl to get jack started first. Why won't they connect to an
already-running jack, though??" I close Ardour.
I go back to qjackctl, and press 'stop'. The display changes from
'started' to 'stopping'. I wait. Nothing more happens, and it appears
that after all the trouble getting jack started, now it won't stop!
...another reboot. This is not acceptable. It's looking too much like
another OS I hate...
Now I launch Ardour, and let it start jack for me. I open a little test
session containing only a single short track. I press the 'play' button,
and nothing happens. I try hitting the space bar, and nothing happens. I
click on the timeline, and the playhead moves as expected. I press the
'return to zero' button, and nothing happens.
This was a session recorded with another version of Ardour (on US 10.04),
so I think it might be a compatibility issue. So I stop ardour, and then
re-start it to open a new session and try that. It gives me a message
that it couldn't start jack because it was already running as another
user. This jack won't die, either:
[rtg@angel ~]$ killall jackd
[rtg@angel ~]$ ps aux | grep jack
rtg 2109 75.4 3.7 91232 77064 ? RLsl 15:29 19:28
/usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -p 128 -R -P 60 -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 48000 -p
1024 -d hw:0,0
rtg 2206 0.0 0.0 4212 712 pts/1 S+ 15:55 0:00 grep jack
[rtg@angel ~]$ kill 2109
[rtg@angel ~]$ ps aux | grep jack
rtg 2109 75.8 3.7 91232 77064 ? RLsl 15:29 19:55
/usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -p 128 -R -P 60 -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 48000 -p
1024 -d hw:0,0
rtg 2208 0.0 0.0 4212 716 pts/1 S+ 15:55 0:00 grep jack
[rtg@angel ~]$ kill -s 9 2109
[rtg@angel ~]$ ps aux | grep jack
rtg 2109 77.4 3.7 91232 77064 ? RLs 15:29 21:54
/usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -p 128 -R -P 60 -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 48000 -p
1024 -d hw:0,0
rtg 2210 0.0 0.0 4212 716 pts/1 S+ 15:57 0:00 grep jack
...I'm getting pretty sick of these reboots!
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our
safety and our ideals."
-President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009