Bug#527642: jackd: jack daemon quits at boot up

Sat May 9 09:08:40 UTC 2009

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote:

Hi!

> I tried to enable jackd start at boot up by editing /etc/default/jackd
> When the system starts I do ...
>     $ ps -ef | grep [j]ack
> .... and see no listing.

JFTR: pgrep -l jackd  is a little easier...

>     # /etc/init.d/jackd start
> ....and got...
>     Removing stale PID file /var/run/jackd.pid. (warning).
>     Starting jackd audio server: jackdStarting /usr/bin/jackd...
>     Detaching to start /usr/bin/jackd...done.

Is jackd running afterwards?

Can you try removing -R and -P from the jackd command line? Just to make
sure the problem isn't related to missing POSIX-RT prios (I don't know
if the script acquires the necessary permissions)

Starting jackd as user 'contact' works?

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