Cosmetic issue when reporting which program blocks audio device. Needs sys-process/lsof . Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start qtractor (without lsof installed) 2. watch messages area Actual Results: 22:09:25.877 Session closed. 22:09:25.887 New session: "Untitled1". 22:09:30.914 The audio/MIDI engine could not be started. Make sure the JACK audio server (jackd) and/or the ALSA Sequencer kernel module (snd-seq-midi) are up and running and then restart the session. jackd 0.121.3 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 sh: lsof: command not found ATTENTION: The playback device "hw:0" is already in use. Please stop the application using it and run JACK again cannot load driver module alsa Expected Results: 22:16:05.031 Session closed. 22:16:05.043 New session: "Untitled1". 22:16:10.070 The audio/MIDI engine could not be started. Make sure the JACK audio server (jackd) and/or the ALSA Sequencer kernel module (snd-seq-midi) are up and running and then restart the session. jackd 0.121.3 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 ATTENTION: The playback device "hw:0" is already in use. The following applications are using your soundcard(s) so you should check them and stop them as necessary before trying to start JACK again: mpd (process ID 15837) cannot load driver module alsa
qtractor doesnt call lsof, but jackd does, so i added the rdep there, thanks