Michael T D Nelson wrote: > Ken Schutte wrote: > >> I used to have jack working fine on my system, but lately strange >> things have been happening. Right now when I try: >> jackd -v -d alsa >> I get, >> too many servers already active >> > I had a similar problem before - I think it happened after my machine > had been powered off without shutting down (not my fault!) > > I solved the problem by deleting a pair of temporary jack files > somewhere, and then rebooting. > > I think they are jack buffer files. Try to do a 'locate fifo'. > > I'll have a look for them in the morning and post back. > > Michael I did find two files that I tried deleting: ~/.qt/.qjackctlrc.lock /var/lock/subsys/alsasound Initialy I was getting the same error, but after rebooting now it works! Thanks! Well, I shouldn't say it's now working... now I'm getting: required capabilities not available capabilities: = cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_nice,cap_sys_resource+e within the qjackctl messages on start. But, I guess this is unrelated, so I'll have to look into this now... thanks again.
