Catch-22 with Audacity and Jack
Mumia W.
paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 15 06:57:32 UTC 2008
On 09/15/2008 12:14 AM, Lou Katz wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:17:34PM -0500, Jason Crain wrote:
>> Jack is separated into several packages. The main sound server is
>> called jackd, which depends on shared libraries in package libjack0.
>> Lots of packages depend on libjack0, including audacity. It should be
>> harmless to upgrade libjack0 and does not require you to install the
>> full jack sound server.
>
> No Joy!
>
> The version of libjack0 which is installed is the most recent one. Audacity runs just fine when Synaptic
> shows jackd (0.103.0-6ubuntu1) as not installed, but the little orange icon want's me to 'upgrade'
> jackd to 0.103.0-6ubuntu1, even though it is not installed. If I do the upgrade, the jackd gets
> installed, the icon goes away and I no longer can get sound out, with the uniformative
> "Error while opening sound device. Please check the output device settings and the project sample rate."
> message. Deinstalling jackd allows sound to come out.
>
> psax in the two situations shows no differences. Bah!
>
> I could fix the Update manager the way my brother dealt with the oil light in his car coming on - he
> disconnected the oil light.
>
You must be running Intrepid because jackd 0.103.0-6ubuntu1 is not an
option for Hardy. I recommend using Aptitude's interactive interface to
find out what package on your system requires jackd. Or you can use this
non-interactive command:
aptitude why jackd
I think that should show you what packages might require jackd to be
installed.
BTW, does your brother's car still run? ;-)
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