On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:58:37 -0400 Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a long-standing problem. While it is not intentional, sometimes > newcomers to jack on Linux tend to pull out the soundcard (USB) before > shutting down jack. This results in jack permanently hanging to the > point where one has to force-shutdown the machine. That is at least the > case on Ubuntu 14.04 (and was on 12.04) with lowlatency kernel. Trying > to do sudo killall -9 jackd makes no difference. Essentially, it is > impossible to destroy the process and reboot hangs because of it. > > Any idea what can be done to minimize this problem or alleviate it > altogether? > > Best, > > Ico a workaround is from a terminal type: pidof jackd you'll get a number such as 3772 then type kill -9 3772 -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
