cant start jack server

wavenator · 2008-02-20 20:54:54

i cant start jack server
when i am doing 'start' in qjackctl
i get "/dev/shm/jack-0 already exists, but is not a directory!"

my fstab:

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0
/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win-c ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/win-d ntfs auto,nls=utf8,umask=000 0 0
shmfs /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0

what should i do?

dunc · 2008-03-27 22:31:36

Did you ever find out? Because I've been using Jack under Arch for nearly a year now with no problems, and it's just started giving me this "/dev/shm/jack-0 already exists, but is not a directory!", too. I have no idea what's gone wrong.

Edit: Ah. Never post in a panic after a long tiring day. I've recently taken to starting X from the commandline, rather than using GDM. It seems that's what's causing the problem for me. Clearly GDM does something that a commandline login doesn't. I knew the problem seemed familiar; I had the same trouble when I tried SLiM.

Now all I have to do is figure out what it is that GDM does, that SLiM and a commandline login don't. Any ideas, anyone?

Last edited by dunc (2008-03-28 18:58:05)

AsA · 2008-10-06 13:08:25

Does anyone know a workaround for this? Now I'm sticky with the same problem, and I really would like to came back to the light and fast terminal login

Last edited by AsA (2008-10-11 15:44:19)

dunc · 2008-10-07 20:56:56

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 64#p418064:

Add

session        required    pam_limits.so

to /etc/pam.d/su.

I'd forgotten about this thread, or I'd have posted the link sooner.

Army · 2008-10-08 09:22:41

Exactly! I had this problem and completely solved it with this line in /etc/pam.d/su But this error message came here, when I tried to start jack as root. You don't have to do that anymore!!!

AsA · 2008-10-08 11:57:01

Many thanks, When I was searching I missed the other topic.
It works perfectly, now I can say farewell to GDM

Thanks again!

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#1 2008-02-20 20:54:54

cant start jack server

#2 2008-03-27 22:31:36

Re: cant start jack server

#3 2008-10-06 13:08:25

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#4 2008-10-07 20:56:56

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#5 2008-10-08 09:22:41

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