Cadence has worked great for years but yesterday when I started cadence, all settings were greyed out.
I have made no changes to the system [ archlinux] other than apply updates.
That's telling you jackdbus isn't available. On Arch jack2 and jack2dbus have been split up, re-combined, split up again ... how the two are packaged has changed more than once while I've been using Arch.
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: ------------------
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: Controller activated. Version 1.9.18 (0+5041ab0fe7fb719efa5122386d355397289a91f0-dirty) built on Fri Apr 16 04:36:44 2021
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: Loading settings from "/home/tc1384/.config/jack/conf.xml" using expat_2.4.1 ...
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: ERROR: failed to stat "/home/tc1384/.config/jack/conf.xml", error is 2 (No such file or directory)
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: ERROR: open() failed to open conf filename.
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: Listening for D-Bus messages
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: Starting jack server...
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Sun Jun 27 16:27:28 2021: self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
Sun Jun 27 16:27:29 2021: graph reorder: new port 'system:capture_1'
Sun Jun 27 16:27:29 2021: New client 'system' with PID 0
Sun Jun 27 16:27:29 2021: graph reorder: new port 'system:capture_2'
Sun Jun 27 16:27:29 2021: graph reorder: new port 'system:playback_1'
Sun Jun 27 16:27:29 2021: graph reorder: new port 'system:playback_2'
I have tried both of your suggestion and it does not resolve the Grayed out issue.
I created a test account and cadence work fine under it, so there is something under my user account that is messed up.
I've tried:
deleting ~/.config/Cadence
deleting ~/.config/jack
deleting ~/.config/.asound
deleting ~/.config/falkTX
As stated above I have cadence running and the sound is working but everything under cadence is grayed out and I am unable to reconfigure it, which is needed since I use both alsa and firewire.
I have not tried reinstalling cadence.
I know that it is related to the user account because I created a test account and it runs fine under it.
I have tried removing the following and allowing jack and cadence to recreate them:
Cadence as suddenly decided to work.
The screen is no longer grayed out and I can make changes to the configuration.
I have no idea what made it start working.
All I've done to my system is install 2 packages and apply updates and I really don't think that had anything to do with it. I still believe it was a user account issue.
The packages I installed were a couple of python packages: