[LAU] killling zombie jack

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sat Oct 24 06:31:21 UTC 2015



> On 23.10.2015, at 20:11, Neil C Smith <neilcsmith.net at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 23 October 2015 at 18:37, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>> IIRC .jackdrc is ignored by jackdbus when it's auto-started - the
>>> configuration is read from ~/.config/jack/conf.xml
>> 
>> jackd can be auto-started too
>> www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/820
> 
> Not sure you've read what you pointed to! :-P
> 
> Yes of course jackd can be auto-started.  However, unless I'm missing
> something in the code I linked to above, the mechanism used to
> auto-start is hardwired into Jack2 at compile time?
> 
> eg. "the --dbus flag must be defined at configure time to compile the
> jackdbus executable. If the "automatic start server option" is used by
> clients, jackd server will be started using the dbus service."
> 
> from https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2
> 
> So any system that includes jackdbus will auto-start through dbus.

I've got /bin/jackd and /bin/jackdbus on my Arch Linux. If neither jackd nor jackdbus is running and I launch Qtractor, then jackd gets started, not jackdbus.


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