Bug#697463: zynjacku: lv2rack crashes with some plugins

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2013/1/5 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:

Hi 0 1 and Jonas,

> Hi 0 1,
>
> Quoting 0 1 (2013-01-05 16:43:14)
>> Program is quite unstable, adding a few plugins, I get just after some
>> loads:
>>
>> The program 'lv2rack' received an X Window System error.
>>
>> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>>    (Details: serial 171731 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>>    (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>>     that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>>     To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>>     option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>>     backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
>> function.)
>
> Please provide more context - i.e. which plugins it was that you loaded.
>
>
>> I could investigate further but I suppose the program deserves some
>> update, though...
>
> Why?
>
>
>> ... git repo isn't very informative about their activity:
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/zynjacku.git/shortlog
>
> Yeah, looks like that git is empty.  Irrelevant for this bug, though.

Here might be explanation why git is empty:

http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2012/8/21/192325

Yes, it looks like Nedko abandoned all his lv2 projects.

Maybe we should consider to remove them from debian in future if they
become outdated.

>> And it seems like development may have ceased.
>
> Again: irrelevant for this bug.
>
>
>
>> Has anyone more infos about status/alternatives ?
>
> For the CALF plugins specifically you can use calfjackhost.

And here is other lv2 host alternative:

http://drobilla.net/software/jalv/

you can find it in debian repositories.

best regards

mira