Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 14:50 +0000, Michael T D Nelson wrote: >>Paul Davis wrote: >>>go to the qjackctl setup dialog and make sure that the command to start >>>jack is "jackd" and not "jackstart". "jackstart" is purely for 2.4- >>>kernel based systems and should not be used on a 2.6-kernel based >>>system. >> >>Thanks for the prompt reply, but it's set to "jackd" already. > > well then something is very confused. your error messages included a > line about not being able to write to the jackstart sync pipe. > > did you install jackd as a normal CCRMA package? Yep. And it was working fine until a couple of weeks ago. I don't think I have done anything untoward. The only software which I compile from source is completely unrelated to audio (things like OpenVPN, mainly for work). I have just noticed a recent thread on this list (started by Carlos Pino) with a very similar sounding problem. No solution yet, though... Thanks, Michael