On 6 November 2012 11:47, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 November 2012 12:49, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 4 November 2012 11:23, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to get a Jack DBUS setup working on Fedora 18. It seems >>> pulse refuses to release the audio device when it gets a dbus request >>> from jack: >>> >>> Sat Nov 3 20:08:11 2012: [1m [31mERROR: Failed to acquire device >>> name : Audio1 error : Method "RequestRelease" with signature "i" on >>> interface "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1" doesn't exist >>> [0m >>> Sat Nov 3 20:08:11 2012: [1m [31mERROR: Audio device hw:1 cannot be >>> acquired... [0m > >>> If pulse is running but doesn't have the device then jack starts okay >>> and the sink/source modules get loaded. > Sorry if I'm boring people with this. The magic recipe to get a list of available interfaces (or whatever they're called in dbus speak) is: dbus-send --session --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames $ dbus-send --session --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames|grep org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1 string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio1" While simultaneously: Acquire audio card Audio0 Failed to acquire device name : Audio1 error : Method "RequestRelease" with signature "i" on interface "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1" doesn't exist dbus-monitor of this neogtiation while trying to start jackdbus via jack_control: method call sender=:1.97 -> dest=:1.82 serial=4 path=/org/jackaudio/Controller; interface=org.jackaudio.JackControl; member=StartServer method call sender=:1.82 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=18 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" uint32 4 method call sender=:1.82 -> dest=org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0 serial=19 path=/org/freedesktop/ReserveDevice1/Audio0; interface=org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1; member=RequestRelease int32 2147483647 signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=222 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string ":1.35" string "" method call sender=:1.35 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=36 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=ReleaseName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" method return sender=:1.35 -> dest=:1.82 reply_serial=19 boolean true signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=59 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string "" string ":1.35" method call sender=:1.35 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=38 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" uint32 5 signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=223 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string ":1.35" string ":1.82" method call sender=:1.82 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=20 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" uint32 6 signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=63 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string ":1.82" string "" method call sender=:1.82 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=21 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=ReleaseName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=64 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string "" string ":1.35" method call sender=:1.35 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=39 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" uint32 5 signal sender=:1.2 -> dest=(null destination) serial=1713 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged signal sender=:1.29 -> dest=(null destination) serial=78 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged signal sender=:1.2 -> dest=(null destination) serial=1714 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged signal sender=:1.2 -> dest=(null destination) serial=1715 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged signal sender=:1.29 -> dest=(null destination) serial=79 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged signal sender=:1.29 -> dest=(null destination) serial=80 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged signal sender=:1.29 -> dest=(null destination) serial=81 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged signal sender=:1.2 -> dest=(null destination) serial=1716 path=/Mixers/1; interface=org.kde.KMix.Mixer; member=controlChanged error sender=:1.82 -> dest=:1.97 error_name=org.jackaudio.Error.Generic reply_serial=4 string "Failed to open server" signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=224 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string ":1.97" string ":1.97" string "" or again: method call sender=:1.110 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=1 path=/org/freede sktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=Hello method call sender=:1.110 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=2 path=/org/freede sktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" uint32 4 method call sender=:1.110 -> dest=org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0 serial=3 path=/org/freedesktop/ReserveDevice1/Audio0; interface=org.freedesktop.ReserveD evice1; member=RequestRelease int32 2147483647 signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=295 path=/o rg/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string ":1.35" string "" method call sender=:1.35 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=74 path=/org/freede sktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=ReleaseName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" method return sender=:1.35 -> dest=:1.110 reply_serial=3 boolean true signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=137 path=/o rg/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string "" string ":1.35" method call sender=:1.35 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=76 path=/org/freede sktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" uint32 5 signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination) serial=296 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0" string ":1.35" string ":1.110" method call sender=:1.110 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=4 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName method call sender=:1.110 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=5 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName string "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio1" uint32 4 method call sender=:1.110 -> dest=org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio1 serial=6 path=/org/freedesktop/ReserveDevice1/Audio1; interface=org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1; member=RequestRelease int32 2147483647 error sender=:1.35 -> dest=:1.110 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod reply_serial=6 string "Method "RequestRelease" with signature "i" on interface "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1" doesn't exist " I'll speculate that something somewhere is confused by the presence of two devices and either Audio1 isn't being provided correctly by pulse (though it does create it) or requested properly by Jack (though with only one parameter that's difficult to believe). -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk