[Ardour-Users] ardour 3.0 alpha season drawing to an end

Wayne wayne at in-giro.org
Tue Jul 12 07:28:30 PDT 2011


Il giorno mar, 12/07/2011 alle 09.54 -0400, Wayne ha scritto:

> Il giorno mar, 12/07/2011 alle 08.28 +0200, Nando ha scritto:
> 
> > Hmm... I've seen that happen too. Wasn't sure it was Ardour's fault.
> > I'll try to investigate.
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Al Thompson
> > <althompson58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >         On 07/11/2011 09:45 PM, michael noble wrote:
> >         > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Paul Davis
> >         <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> >         >> Alpha 10 (the next one) will be the least alpha release
> >         of ardour 3.0.
> >         >> The release after that will be beta1. Because of this is,
> >         it is
> >         >> CRITICAL that users report two particular categories of
> >         bugs:
> >         >>
> >         >>   1) crashing bugs (this includes lockups/hangs)
> >         >>   2) workflow issues that make certain desirable goals
> >         impossible or
> >         >> absurdly hard to accomplish (particulary with respect to
> >         MIDI)
> >         >>
> >         >> Please use the bug tracker at http://tracker.ardour.org/
> >         to report all
> >         >> such issues.
> >         >>
> >         >> thanks,
> >         >> --p
> >         > Any kind of timeline on this? I'd like to do some testing
> >         but won't
> >         > get a chance until this weekend or possibly the one after.
> >         > _______________________________________________
> >         
> >         
> >         I'm testing Alpha9 tonight, and hope we have some time to
> >         wring this
> >         out.  I'm having some serious issues.  I just now had this
> >         pop up when I
> >         had let ardour set idle for a while:
> >         
> >         [INFO]: looking for control protocols in
> >         /opt/Ardour-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg/lib/surfaces
> >         [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Mackie"
> >         [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Generic MIDI"
> >         [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Open Sound
> >         Control (OSC)"
> >         [INFO]: Loading menus
> >         from /opt/Ardour-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg/etc/ardour.menus
> >         [INFO]: Loading bindings from
> >         /opt/Ardour-3.0alpha9_9807-dbg/etc/mnemonic-us.bindings
> >         Loading history from
> >         /home/al/Ardour3_Projects/Allegory_Illusions/Allegory
> >         Illusions/Allegory
> >         Illusions.history
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 4
> >         
> >         
> 
> 
>     i have been having these same issues, only with Ardour 3 (i.e.
> Rosegarden, Ardour 2, Qsynth, etc. do not produce these errors from
> JACK) running JACK2 SVN (i have not tried JACK1).
> 
>     first, the Ardour 3 log window popping up on startup with the
> following errors (the values, repetitions, etc, sometimes vary):
> 
> [INFO]: looking for control protocols
> in /home/in0giro/.config/ardour3/surfaces:/usr/lib/ardour3/surfaces
> [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Open Sound Control
> (OSC)"
> [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Mackie"
> [INFO]: Powermate device not found; perhaps you have no powermate
> connected
> [INFO]: Control protocol powermate not usable
> [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Generic MIDI"
> [INFO]: Loading menus from /usr/etc/ardour3/ardour.menus
> [INFO]: Loading bindings
> from /home/in0giro/.config/ardour3/ardour.bindings
> Loading history from Ardour 3/for demonstration purposes
> [2011.07.01]/for demonstration purposes [2011.07.01].history
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success
> [ERROR]: JACK: Connect: can't connect named semaphore name =
> jack_sem.5000_default_ err = Invalid argument
> [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 28
> [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 28
> [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 28


    i also get a few of these on startup as well:

[ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Invalid argument
[ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Invalid argument



> 
> the "[ERROR]: JACK: Cannot read socket fd = 11 err = Success" line is
> almost a constant occurrence on session load, while "[ERROR]: JACK:
> Connect: can't connect named semaphore name = jack_sem.5000_default_
> err = Invalid argument" is more rare.  the "[ERROR]: JACK:
> JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 28" error does not always
> happen on session load, but it eventually occurs (see below).
> 
>     then, seemingly depending on the complexity (i.e. number of
> tracks/buses/regions) of the session, i get more/less pop ups of the
> Ardour 3 log window, with the following message:
> 
> [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 28
> [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 28
> [ERROR]: JACK: JackActivationCount::Signal value = 0 ref = 28
> 
> this happens so much on certain complex sessions that the program
> becomes unusable, as i have to constantly clear away the log window.
> i have noted that these errors usually occur when
> 
>      1. i am recording and the play head hits the punch in marker 
>      2. i toggle the solo/mute state of a track 
> 
> however, they also randomly pop up when Ardour 3 is idle (i.e. not
> playing/recording).  finally, the appearance of this error always
> coincides/causes XRUNs.
> 
>     i spoke with las a briefly on IRC about this and his first guess
> was that it is a JACK problem.  i assumed it was a local JACK problem
> on my machine, but seeing that 1) others are experiencing it 2) it
> only happens with Ardour 3, maybe we need to take a second look.
> could be that Ardour 3 is using a piece of JACK that these other apps
> are not?
> 
>     also, it happens whether i am starting JACK from QJackCtl, LADISH
> or jackdbus.
> 
>     in the mean time, is there a way to disable the log window in
> Ardour 3?
> 
>     if anyone has any other experiences with this problem (e.g. with
> JACK1 instead), please reply all.
> 
> peace, w
> 
> 
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