First of all, is there a reason that my mails to this list need to pass moderation? On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:08:39 +0100, hgn wrote: >Switching the language to English in your terminal will drastically >increase the chances of an answer, either here or in the ardour forums. This would be true, if there would be any relevant messages. It's a language I don't understand, however, without doubts the OP just gets the usual information messages and then nothing happens. The content of those messages is about the open files limit etc., there are no error messages. An error message could look like this ardour: [ERROR]: ControlProtocolManager: cannot load module "/usr/lib/ardour5/surfaces/libardour_wiimote.so" (/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1: undefined symbol: hci_close_dev) The first thing I would do, to troubleshoot, would open a second terminal and take a look if running top does show something. In a third terminal I would start with taking a look at ps aux | grep ardour Regards, Ralf -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-securityink,-pussytoes,-cornflower,}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.19.arch1-1 4.19_rt1-0 4.18.16_rt9-1 4.18.16_rt8-1 4.18.12_rt7-1