Catch-22 with Audacity and Jack

[Karl Larsen]

Mumia W. wrote:
> 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? ;-)
>
>
>
>   
    It works. I got this:

karl at karl-hardy:~$ aptitude why jackd
i   gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad Depends  libjack0 (>= 0.109.2)    
i A libjack0                  Suggests jackd (= 0.109.2-1ubuntu1)
karl at karl-hardy:~$

It is there and working. My sound has stopped almost completely.


Karl


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