After Ubuntu 20.04. Update Jack is not starting

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basementmedia
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After Ubuntu 20.04. Update Jack is not starting

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Hi,

wenn i try to start Jack, i get the following fault messages:

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Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: ERROR: Stack trace:
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: ERROR: End of stack trace
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: ERROR: End of stack trace
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: ------------------
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: Controller activated. Version 1.9.12 (unknown) built on Thu Apr 16 10:21:43 2020
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: Loading settings from "/home/basementmedia/.config/jack/conf.xml" using expat_2.2.9 ...
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'engine':'driver':'(null)' to value "firewire"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'engine':'realtime':'(null)' to value "true"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'engine':'verbose':'(null)' to value "false"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'engine':'client-timeout':'(null)' to value "500"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'firewire':'capture' to value "true"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'firewire':'playback' to value "true"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'firewire':'inchannels' to value "16"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'firewire':'outchannels' to value "16"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'device' to value "hw:0"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'capture' to value "hw:0"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'playback' to value "hw:0"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'rate' to value "48000"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'period' to value "1024"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'nperiods' to value "2"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'hwmon' to value "false"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'hwmeter' to value "false"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'duplex' to value "true"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'softmode' to value "false"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'monitor' to value "false"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'dither' to value "n"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'shorts' to value "false"
Thu Nov 19 06:43:04 2020: Listening for D-Bus messages
06:43:06.233 Keine Verbindungsaufnahme als Client zum JACK-Server möglich. - Gesamtbetrieb schlug fehl. - Verbindungsaufnahme zum Server gescheitert. Bitte sehen Sie im Meldungsfenster nach weiteren Informationen.
Cannot connect to server socket err = Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
I have no idea, what to do ;-)
Do you have tips how i can get jack working again?

Best wishes
Daniel
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Re: After Ubuntu 20.04. Update Jack is not starting

Post by robin »

Your settings seem to refer to your sound card as hw:0, you should find a persistent name for that in case the hardware ordering changed, which may have happend during the update. See
https://jackaudio.org/faq/device_naming.html
on how to find that.
And do you really have 16 ins and outs?
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Re: After Ubuntu 20.04. Update Jack is not starting

Post by TAERSH »

Looks like an external mixing console with builtin sound card like the Phonic Helix Board MKII.
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