Bug#905774: jackd2: jackd no longer starts, since device is already in use; but who's using it?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Francesco Poli (2018-08-09 16:04:07)
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 13:22:55 +0200 Klaumi Klingsporn wrote:
> 
> > Am / On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 12:35:28 +0200
> > schrieb / wrote "Francesco Poli (wintermute)"
> > <invernomuto at paranoici.org>:
> > 
> > > Why my jackd does not tell me which application is using
> > > hw:0 ?!? How can I figure out which application is
> > > getting in the way?
[...]
> > And than there's debian bug #901931 which gave me the same
> > problem last time: timidity-daemon 2.14.0-3 blocked the
> > sound-device (even for pulseaudio).
> 
> Bingo!
> After purging timidity-daemon, everything works again!
> 
> I still have to understand why I had timidity-daemon installed on that 
> box: aptitude logs show that it had been there since long ago (the 
> oldest log shows an UPGRADE, rather than an INSTALL), but I am sure I 
> have never installed it manually. Indeed it was marked as 
> automatically installed, but no other installed package currently 
> depends on or recommends it.
> On another machine with an almost identical list of manually installed 
> packages, I do not have timidity or timidity-daemon installed...

timidity used to recommend timidity-daemon (and some uses of APT wrongly 
flag auto-installed packages as manually-installed, or miss flagging 
them as auto-installed, or somesuch).  Seemingly relaxation from 
recommends to suggests happened at release 2.14.0-4.


 - Jonas

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