[CLAM] Multiple jack clients

Pau Arumí parumi at iua.upf.edu
Sun Jul 20 00:31:56 PDT 2008


On dg, 2008-07-20 at 08:10 +0200, David García Garzón wrote:
> On Diumenge 20 Juliol 2008, Carlos Pita wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using clam for the first time. My platform is gnu linux with jack.
> > Each time I press play/stop in the network editor a new jack client is
> > created, while the old one is kept. The new client isn't automatically
> > reconnected. So at the end my qjackctl connections graph is cluttered
> > with a lot of clam dead clients and I'm forced to reconnect the new
> > one each time. Is this intentional? Can I avoid that? Maybe I
> > shouldn't play/stop the editor.
> >
> > Best regards
> > -Carlos
> 
> This is a known bug we introduced when trying to solve a different one, 
> Previous bug made the jack client being eventually invalidated so that you 
> couldn't reuse it for a new play. We solved it by creating a new client when 
> the previous client died. The problems seems to be that clam seems to think 
> that the client died every time. A review of the whole jack support should be 
> done because other problems exist.
> 
> The bug is that grave that it should be addressed before the next release but 
> for the short term we have other priorities and we cannot address it right 
> now. Being open source, any patch solving the problem is welcome.
> 
> David.

I can not reproduce this (here I have jackd 0.109.2 protocol 22, Ubuntu
Hardy).
Carlos, what version do you have? Can you check it it persists when
running jackd with the dummy driver?

P





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