[PlanetCCRMA] fedora 9 jack no realtime normal user

David Nielson naptastic at comcast.net
Sun Jan 18 19:41:13 PST 2009


francis keyes wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I just upgraded to Fedora 9 and am finding that Jack won't start in 
> realtime mode as a normal user.  It starts fine with realtime as root.
> The only thing I know to check is the /etc/security/limits.conf file.  
> Mine looks ok I think:
>
> ## Automatically appended by jack-audio-connection-kit
> @jackuser - rtprio 20
> @jackuser - memlock 4194304
>
> ## Automatically appended by jack-audio-connection-kit
> @pulse-rt - rtprio 20
> @pulse-rt - nice -20
Sanity check: Is your user a member of the jackuser group? You might try 
this instead:
username - rtprio 20

with your username in the space of username, of course :-) Log out and 
back in after changing limits.conf, and see if that works.

David



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