Hello Joe, The discussion about this issue continued in the Ardour list and that's why the solution to this problem didn't make it to this list. You can read the whole thread here: http://tinyurl.com/5ntyr8 Basically it seems that installing Jack from CVS solves the problem, I've done some testing and seems to help. Cheers, Hector On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Joseph Sanger wrote: > Hello there, > > Just out of interest, did this work? Or did you manage to fix it another > way? I was just about to email the list about similar issues (Csound > crashing Ardour/Jack) and I ran across this thread. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > Hector Centeno wrote: >> >> Thanks Paul, >> >> I did the priority setting following someone else's advice on setting >> the rtirq script and jack. I'll try taking it out. >> >> I tried jack from SVN a few weeks ago and had a few crashes too... but >> maybe it was caused by the fact that I installed it on top of the >> already installed official Jack from Ubuntu (I was a bit lazy to deal >> with the dependency mess). I'll give it a better try. >> >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> Hector >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Paul Davis >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 02:16 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I just worked on a project that involved recording several tracks of >>>> sound synthesized by Csound in realtime (tried both official 5.09 and >>>> CVS build) plus ambisonic ladspa panners, ambdec (ambisonic decoder) >>>> and jconv (convolution application). I started this project using >>>> Ubuntu Studio Linux and ended it with OpenSuse (both using their >>>> respective RT kernels and getting same problems with both). It became >>>> a very unstable combination since every time I stopped Csound, >>>> randomly Ardour would disconnect from jack or jack would crash, and >>>> then I was unable to make Ardour reconnect after restarting jack (it >>>> would complain about not being able to reconnect the ports). It was >>>> happening so regularly that I had ready on my desktop a couple of >>>> scripts to restart everything. >>>> >>>> Is there anything I could do to avoid this? Is it Csounds fault? Is it >>>> my system? Jack is running like this: jackd -R -P60 -p1024 -t2000 -u >>>> -dfreebob -r48000 -p1024 -n3 -D (using a Edirol FA-101). Could this be >>>> a realtime priorities issue? I installed the rtirq script by Rui Nuno >>>> Capela tunned to prioritize the firewire ports and made sure Jack is >>>> running at a lower priority (firewire is at 70). Jack's version is >>>> 0.109.2 and Ardour's is 2.5. >>> >>> Some of your instability probably comes from JACK 0.109.2 (not all of >>> it, but some). There will be a new release out very soon which will fix >>> the JACK-contributed portion. If you feel comfortable doing it, then you >>> can use JACK from svn already. >>> >>> I repeat what I have said so often: there is almost never any reason for >>> users to use the -P flag to JACK. Unless you are working on a special >>> system, just leave JACK to pick priorities. >>> >>> --p >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> Send bugs reports to this list. >> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe >> csound" >> >> > > -- > Joseph Sanger > > Blueberry Eikaiwa > www.bbeikaiwa.com > joe@bbeikaiwa.com > > > Send bugs reports to this list. > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe > csound" >