David Baron wrote: > This is not just XMMS but most anything. After the client has terminated (or > one thinks it had terminated), the connection or connection points persists > in qjackctl. The program is now unstable and jack must be manually killed. This happens to me also but more infrequently than you. I think it may be caused by how the specific application uses the jack interface and not necessarily jack it's self. You should first start be contacting the apps authors. > Xmms instances remain in memory and must be killed. > Jackrack exists OK but its connection points remain > Aviplay (jacklaunched) seems OK > Realplay10 (Helix), connections persist ..... How are you getting Helix player to connect to jack? > How might on fix all this up. Is there a nicer way to restart jackd than to > find the PID, kill it and restart qjackctl? That's pretty much how every single process is dealt with in the unix world. I believe qjackctl automates this with the "stop" button. -lee