[ardour-dev] "Maximum amount of locked memory" error!

[muadib at in.gr]

> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:06:56 +1100
> From: Geoff Beasley <songshop at bizmedia.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [ardour-dev] "Maximum amount of locked memory" error!
> To: ardour-dev at lists.ardour.org
> Message-ID: <200701220806.56999.songshop at bizmedia.com.au>
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> had the same issue last week ! 

Did it show any other errors?I also have the following errors:

(ardour-2.0beta11.1:3859): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "bluecurve",
theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine!
loading system configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc
loading user configuration file /root/.ardour2/ardour.rc
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:451:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
ardour-2.0beta11.1: seq.c:2177: snd_seq_create_port: Assertion `seq && port' failed.
Aborted


> go to /etc/security/limits.conf and add:
> @ (what-ever-user-name)  -  memlock     500000 ( or more if you have the 
> memory)

Just tried, ulimit -l shows '500000', but Ardour2 fails to start. Something tells me I have to recompile...

> hth
>
> g.

Thanks G.