On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:24:02 +0100 Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Hmm, just reread. All I can say is it works for me and with just kill and no sudo :o -- 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
