Peter Lutek wrote: > Michael T D Nelson wrote: > >> 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. >> > yes... i was in on that thread. i get the jackstart sync pipe error > message when starting jackd with qjackctl, however it does start fine > despite the error. when starting jackd with the same parameters, but > from the commandline, i do not get the jackstart sync pipe error > message. perhaps it's a qjackctl bug? > > -p Have you tried whether switching off standard output capture on qjackctl/setup/options makes any difference on that "jackstart sync pipe" issue? -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx