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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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d.healey wrote:
Kott wrote:This is very odd.

Should we cast Rui (rncbc) for help? :)
Yes, but how?
I've send him PM.
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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Kott wrote:
d.healey wrote:
Kott wrote:This is very odd.

Should we cast Rui (rncbc) for help? :)
Yes, but how?
I've send him PM.
Cool, thanks!
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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Which Linux are you running?
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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care to show your QjackCtl Messages output right after you start the JACK server?

remember that the startup/shutdown scripts you set on QjackCtl > Setup > Options > Scripting are only meaningful iif you start the JACK server via QjackCtl on its own premises.

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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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rncbc wrote:care to show your QjackCtl only meaningful iif you start the JACK server via QjackCtl on its own premises.
Ooooh I bet that has something to do with the issue, it was years ago when I setup JACK but I'm pretty sure I have it auto-starting with the system, I'll see what's going on. Thanks for the tip!
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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I can't find anything specific that's starting the JACK server, however I am using the pulse-audio sink which runs on start-up, does this automatically start the JACK server?
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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d.healey wrote:I can't find anything specific that's starting the JACK server, however I am using the pulse-audio sink which runs on start-up, does this automatically start the JACK server?
You may check it any old time in a console:

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#>: ps -ef | grep -i jack
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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Loki Harfagr wrote:
d.healey wrote:I can't find anything specific that's starting the JACK server, however I am using the pulse-audio sink which runs on start-up, does this automatically start the JACK server?
You may check it any old time in a console:

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#>: ps -ef | grep -i jack
I get this output, but I don't know what it means
dave 2176 1 0 13:45 ? 00:00:44 /usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -r -m -dalsa -dhw:MicroII -r48000 -p512 -n2 -Xseq -D -Phw:MicroII,0
dave 7518 7508 0 15:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i jack
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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you seem to have some client that managed to auto(magically)started jackd ... and it also seems that it's still up and running... otherwise that "jackd -T .." would be long gone...

anyway...

try this:

1. killall -9 jackd
2. run qjackctl, go to Setup > Misc: turn off "Save JACK audio server configuration to:" if it's set; Quit!
3. on the command line or console:

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echo $(which qjackctl) --start > ~/.jackdrc
chmod a-w ~/.jackdrc
4. now run qjackctl again and setup it as you may like, including adding `a2jmidid -e &` as part of post-startup script;
5. hit Start...

hint: nowadays it is well worth a try to turn on qjackctl > Setup > Misc > JACK D-BUS interface, install pulseaudio-module-jack, then maybe run `pulseaudio -k`just once before hitting (qjackctl >)Start again, but i really don't care whether you want a full desktop audio experience or else ;)

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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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rncbc wrote:you seem to have some client that managed to auto(magically)started jackd ... and it also seems that it's still up and running... otherwise that "jackd -T .." would be long gone...

anyway...

try this:

1. killall -9 jackd
2. run qjackctl, go to Setup > Misc: turn off "Save JACK audio server configuration to:" if it's set; Quit!
3. on the command line or console:

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echo $(which qjackctl) --start > ~/.jackdrc
chmod a-w ~/.jackdrc
4. now run qjackctl again and setup it as you may like, including adding `a2jmidid -e &` as part of post-startup script;
5. hit Start...

hint: nowadays it is well worth a try to turn on qjackctl > Setup > Misc > JACK D-BUS interface, install pulseaudio-module-jack, then maybe run `pulseaudio -k`just once before hitting (qjackctl >)Start again, but i really don't care whether you want a full desktop audio experience or else ;)

cheers && happy NYE!
That didn't seem to help unfortunately - https://pasteboard.co/INh3Mh1.png
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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That didn't seem to help unfortunately - https://pasteboard.co/INh3Mh1.png
looks like jackd is still running
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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d.healey wrote:
rncbc wrote:you seem to have some client that managed to auto(magically)started jackd ... and it also seems that it's still up and running... otherwise that "jackd -T .." would be long gone...

anyway...

try this:

1. killall -9 jackd
2. run qjackctl, go to Setup > Misc: turn off "Save JACK audio server configuration to:" if it's set; Quit!
3. on the command line or console:

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echo $(which qjackctl) --start > ~/.jackdrc
chmod a-w ~/.jackdrc
4. now run qjackctl again and setup it as you may like, including adding `a2jmidid -e &` as part of post-startup script;
5. hit Start...

hint: nowadays it is well worth a try to turn on qjackctl > Setup > Misc > JACK D-BUS interface, install pulseaudio-module-jack, then maybe run `pulseaudio -k`just once before hitting (qjackctl >)Start again, but i really don't care whether you want a full desktop audio experience or else ;)

cheers && happy NYE!
That didn't seem to help unfortunately - https://pasteboard.co/INh3Mh1.png
Have you by any chance installed cadence previously?
This could be starting in the background..
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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d.healey wrote:
Loki Harfagr wrote:
d.healey wrote:I can't find anything specific that's starting the JACK server, however I am using the pulse-audio sink which runs on start-up, does this automatically start the JACK server?
You may check it any old time in a console:

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#>: ps -ef | grep -i jack
I get this output, but I don't know what it means
dave 2176 1 0 13:45 ? 00:00:44 /usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -r -m -dalsa -dhw:MicroII -r48000 -p512 -n2 -Xseq -D -Phw:MicroII,0
dave 7518 7508 0 15:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i jack
This might give you the "faulty parent" name and address ;)

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#>: ps -ef | grep $( ps -C jackd --no-headers -o ppid )
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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rghvdberg wrote: Have you by any chance installed cadence previously?
This could be starting in the background..
No I've never had cadence on this machine.
Loki Harfagr wrote: This might give you the "faulty parent" name and address ;)

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#>: ps -ef | grep $( ps -C jackd --no-headers -o ppid )
I don't know what to do with the output from that command, it just gave me pages of data.
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Re: Virtual Midi Port/Cable

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d.healey wrote:
rghvdberg wrote: Have you by any chance installed cadence previously?
This could be starting in the background..
No I've never had cadence on this machine.
Loki Harfagr wrote: This might give you the "faulty parent" name and address ;)

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#>: ps -ef | grep $( ps -C jackd --no-headers -o ppid )
I don't know what to do with the output from that command, it just gave me pages of data.
Ah, OK, then that's certainly the "parent" launched jackd as "detached spawn" thus it is now seen a having process "1" as sole parent and
my commond would actually list most every process having a charcater 1 in its ps output, quite ungraceful, sorry for the blund.

You'd have had a better (more restrained output) with:

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 #>: ps --ppid $( ps -C jackd --no-headers -o ppid )
but since it's a detached process it won't help!

A typical program I know as using jackd this way is Carla, but there might be others. (AFICT Cadence uses jackdbus and not jackd but I may be wrong since I never could understand how to use it/launch/stop/setitup [my bad, just like some folks can/could use an iphone or a Palm and I never ever could])
Anyway...

You may try to force kill the running jacke and immediatly launch the commands @rncbc gave you hoping the respawner hadn't had time to hassle in:

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 #>: killall -KILL jackd ; echo $(which qjackctl) --start > ~/.jackdrc ; chmod a-w ~/.jackdrc ; qjackctl -s
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