[PlanetCCRMA] Re: freebob broken today

[Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:

> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:56 -0500, Hector Centeno wrote:
>> OK, it seems that the problem is the new Jack from the CCRMA testing
>> repository. I installed it last night and tested it without rebooting
>> and worked fine but today after rebooting it didn't work with freebob
>> (alsa is ok). I reinstalled the stable version, tested right away and
>> didn't work, rebooted and retested then it worked! Does this make
>> sense? 
>
> Not really. Very strange as I would imagine that a reboot would not
> help, unless this has something to do with kernel modules. But how? I'll
> see if I can take a look at this in more detail. 

ISTR rebooting after upgrading was needed to free some shared memory
area or IPC resource or something, at least for some svn versions of
jack, not sure if it still applies to 0.109.x. Paul Davis told me
about this a while back, but I can't find any relevant info on
jackaudio.org.

-- 
Arnaud