[PlanetCCRMA] jack problem after recent system upgrade

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:34 -0500, Peter Lutek wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 13:09 -0500, Peter Lutek wrote:
> >>Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >>>On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 08:09 -0500, Peter Lutek wrote:
> >>>>greetings!
> >>>>
> >>>>i'm on an fc3 planet laptop, which was working flawlessly, until i 
> >>>>recently did a bunch of available upgrades. now jack won't start:
> >>>>
> >>>>>/usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r44100 -p128 -n2 -D -Chw:1,0 -Phw:1,0
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>jackd 0.99.36
> >>>>Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis 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.
> >>>>cannot lock down memory for jackd (Cannot allocate memory)
> >>>>loading driver ..
> >>>>apparent rate = 44100
> >>>>creating alsa driver ... hw:1,0|hw:1,0|128|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> >>>>control device hw:1
> >>>>configuring for 44100Hz, period = 128 frames, buffer = 2 periods
> >>>>nperiods = 2 for capture
> >>>>nperiods = 2 for playback
> >>>>JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
> >>>>jack_create_thread: error -1 switching current thread to rt for 
> >>>>inheritance: Unknown error 4294967295
> >>>>cannot start watchdog thread
> >>>>cannot load driver module alsa
> >>>>Segmentation fault
> >>>>
> >>>>is this possibly related to the pam upgrade? any other clues?
> >>>>
> >>>>thanks very much.
> >>>>
> >>>What version of the kernel are you booting, and what is your current
> >>>version of pam?
> >>>
> >>> uname -r
> >>> rpm -q pam
> >>>      
> >>>
> >> >uname -r
> >>2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc3.ccrma
> >> >rpm -q pam
> >>pam-0.77-66.2.13
> >
> >Latest version in the planetcore repository is:
> >  pam-0.77-66.2.13.1.rhfc3.ccrma
> >You should upgrade to this one... maybe you have planetcore commented out in
> >your apt configuration? If so, enable it in temporarily for this
> >update. 
> >
> planetcore is not commented out. 0.77-66.2.13 is the latest version 
> showing when i reload in synaptic. these are the repositories i'm sourcing:
> 
> URI:
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/
> 
> Distribution:
> fedora/3/i386
> 
> Sections:
> core updates
> planetccrma
> planetedge

You need planetcore as well, as in:
  rpm http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/3/i386 planetcore

You may not want to have it permanently in your configuration but you
will need it to get this pam upgrade. 

-- Fernando