[LAU] ecasound and jack.plumbing don't play well (j.p dies)

Nama configures Ecasound by writing a chain setup, loading it, (re)writing the .jack.plumbing config file, and allowing time for jack.plumbing to connect the desired ports. However if jack.plumbing happens to poll while ecasound is not connected to jack, j.p dies with errors. Connect: 'system:capture_1' -> 'ecasound:brass_in_1'. jack_connect() failed: 'system:capture_1' -> 'ecasound:brass_in_1' Jackd reports: Cannot connect ports owned by inactive clients: "ecasound" is not active I've found that rapidly connecting and disconnecting ecasound is a reliable way to kill jack.plumbing. I may be able to work around this by killing and restarting jack.plumbing each time Nama reconfigures Ecasound, however it would be nice if jack.plumbing could handle Ecasound's routine behaviors more robustly. Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth