[SOLVED] any issues with Arch and EQ10Q?

[funkmuscle]

Hey guys, I know that eq10q had issues with Ardour but the latest version worked fine.. At least for me.. Both the AUR or the installer version.
Since Arch has taken a major step backwards when it comes to proaudio as schiv is quite busy and speps I think may of jumped ship to another distro, we haven't been getting upgrades to programs like Qtractor or Ardour or Jalv, Suil, etc. I decided to upgrade to the latest Qtractor and also upgraded jalv, lv2, etc., with the git version.
Well Qtractor still freezes when loading plugins but EQ10Q, Ardour cannot find it.. The blacklist thing seems to only flush out vsts but I still cleared all the cache yet no EQ10Q. I can launch it in Carla and jalv-select but not Ardour.

I've rolled back all programs, rebuild Ardour, and still it doesn't find EQ10Q. The thing is it did work a few minutes before I updated lv2, jalv, etc. Failure happened after.

Ardour's log:

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[ERROR]: Found a reference to a plugin ("http://eq10q.sourceforge.net/eq/eq10qm") that is unknown.
Perhaps it was removed or moved since it was last used.
[ERROR]: Found a reference to a plugin ("http://eq10q.sourceforge.net/eq/eq10qm") that is unknown.
Perhaps it was removed or moved since it was last used.
[ERROR]: Found a reference to a plugin ("http://eq10q.sourceforge.net/eq/eq10qm") that is unknown.
Perhaps it was removed or moved since it was last used.

[CrocoDuck]

I have many many plugins that fail to be listed in Ardour and Qtractor. I don't know what's the issue really...

[CrocoDuck]

I have many many plugins that fail to be listed in Ardour and Qtractor. I don't know what's the issue really...

Uhm... I went to preferences > plugins in Ardour and scanned again. Seems now that also ardour sees most of the ones that were missing (need to double check). Did you try that?

[funkmuscle]

I have many many plugins that fail to be listed in Ardour and Qtractor. I don't know what's the issue really...

Arch looks like it's becoming quite useless for Pro Audio. I would really hate to change for another distro because I've tried almost all of them and this is the one that always keep coming back to.
It's really strange though that just before I did the upgrade everything work. I rolled everything back to how it was and it just wouldn't fine that plugin bundle.

[funkmuscle]

I have many many plugins that fail to be listed in Ardour and Qtractor. I don't know what's the issue really...

Uhm... I went to preferences > plugins in Ardour and scanned again. Seems now that also ardour sees most of the ones that were missing (need to double check). Did you try that?

Yes that's what I did and I've also have it setup to scan on launch and still it doesn't fine that bundle.

[CrocoDuck]

I have just installed EQ10Q from the AUR and quickly tested it. It seems to work fine with Ardour on my system, which is up to date. Here few info;

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# Kernel I run the test on:
Linux arch 4.4.49-1-lts #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 18:04:00 CET 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# Ardour version (from the repo)
local/ardour 4.7-1
    Professional-grade digital audio workstation

# Jack related packages:
local/a2jmidid 8-1
    A daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI system.
local/calf 0.0.60-4
    LV2/DSSI/LADSPA plug-ins suite and standalone JACK host
local/guitarix2 0.35.2-3
    A simple mono guitar amplifier and FX for JACK using Faust
local/jack-keyboard 2.7.1-1
    A virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK.
local/jack2 1.9.10-6
    The next-generation JACK with SMP support
local/jamin-cvs 0.98.3-6
    A JACK Audio Connection Kit Audio Mastering interface
local/lash 0.6.0~rc2-10
    A session management system for JACK and ALSA
local/libflashsupport-jack 20110801-1
    JACK-audio-connection-kit support for Flash
local/pulseaudio-jack 10.0-2
    Jack support for PulseAudio
local/qjackctl 0.4.3-1
    A Qt front-end for the JACK low-latency audio server

# lv2 related packages:
local/calf 0.0.60-4
    LV2/DSSI/LADSPA plug-ins suite and standalone JACK host
local/dpf-plugins-git r73.fe9e89e-1
    Collection of DPF-based plugins by DISTRHO. LV2, LADSPA, dssi and VST.
local/eq10q 2.2-1 (lv2-plugins)
    An LV2 parametric equalizer audio plugin
local/helm-git 0.8.5.r1458.6dbcd64-1 (lv2-plugins vst-plugins)
    a cross-platform, polyphonic synthesizer LV2 and VST plugin
local/lilv 0.22.0-2
    A C library interface to the LV2 plug-in standard
local/lsp-plugins-lv2-bin 1.0.20-1
    Linux Studio Plugins: LV2 format
local/lv2 1.12.0-1
    Successor to the LADSPA audio plug-in standard
local/sratom 0.4.6-1
    An LV2 Atom RDF serialisation library
local/suil 0.8.2-2
    A lightweight C library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs
local/zam-plugins-git 3.7.r11.g3501810-1
    Collection of LV2/LADSPA/VST audio plugins for high quality processing
    

Maybe worth to try an LTS kernel? Maybe a long shot tho...

[funkmuscle]

I have just installed EQ10Q from the AUR and quickly tested it. It seems to work fine with Ardour on my system, which is up to date. Here few info;

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# Kernel I run the test on:
Linux arch 4.4.49-1-lts #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 18:04:00 CET 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# Ardour version (from the repo)
local/ardour 4.7-1
    Professional-grade digital audio workstation

# Jack related packages:
local/a2jmidid 8-1
    A daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI system.
local/calf 0.0.60-4
    LV2/DSSI/LADSPA plug-ins suite and standalone JACK host
local/guitarix2 0.35.2-3
    A simple mono guitar amplifier and FX for JACK using Faust
local/jack-keyboard 2.7.1-1
    A virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK.
local/jack2 1.9.10-6
    The next-generation JACK with SMP support
local/jamin-cvs 0.98.3-6
    A JACK Audio Connection Kit Audio Mastering interface
local/lash 0.6.0~rc2-10
    A session management system for JACK and ALSA
local/libflashsupport-jack 20110801-1
    JACK-audio-connection-kit support for Flash
local/pulseaudio-jack 10.0-2
    Jack support for PulseAudio
local/qjackctl 0.4.3-1
    A Qt front-end for the JACK low-latency audio server

# lv2 related packages:
local/calf 0.0.60-4
    LV2/DSSI/LADSPA plug-ins suite and standalone JACK host
local/dpf-plugins-git r73.fe9e89e-1
    Collection of DPF-based plugins by DISTRHO. LV2, LADSPA, dssi and VST.
local/eq10q 2.2-1 (lv2-plugins)
    An LV2 parametric equalizer audio plugin
local/helm-git 0.8.5.r1458.6dbcd64-1 (lv2-plugins vst-plugins)
    a cross-platform, polyphonic synthesizer LV2 and VST plugin
local/lilv 0.22.0-2
    A C library interface to the LV2 plug-in standard
local/lsp-plugins-lv2-bin 1.0.20-1
    Linux Studio Plugins: LV2 format
local/lv2 1.12.0-1
    Successor to the LADSPA audio plug-in standard
local/sratom 0.4.6-1
    An LV2 Atom RDF serialisation library
local/suil 0.8.2-2
    A lightweight C library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs
local/zam-plugins-git 3.7.r11.g3501810-1
    Collection of LV2/LADSPA/VST audio plugins for high quality processing
    

Maybe worth to try an LTS kernel? Maybe a long shot tho...

Using the LTS real time, Ardour 5.6. Remember all these things were working properly 5 minutes before I did the upgrade of those programs. It's been working fine since 5.6 came out and it was working fine with 5.5 and earlier versions.

[funkmuscle]

solved it!!! looked at the terminal info after launching and found the issue was is:

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/usr/lib/ardour5/lv2

deleted the lv2 from there, relaunched A5 and back in business.