On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 11:10 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 14:17 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > > Hi Jesse,
> > >
> > > > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
> > > > JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to
> > > > use
> > > > realtime scheduling.
> > > > grep: /etc/security/limits.conf: No such file or directory
> > > > Please check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the following
> > > > line
> > > > and correct/add it if necessary:
> > > > @audio - rtprio 99
> > >
> > > Why doesn’t /etc/security/limits.conf ekxist? Have you
> > > reconfigured
> > > your
> > > system with the limits service that is suggested in the manual?
> > >
> >
> > I added the pam-limits-service, reconfigured, and restarted but the
> > issue persists.
>
> This is very strange and I can’t reproduce the problem :-/
>
> Your configuration looks okay.
>
The attached system definition replicates this behavior in a VM. jackd
works (jack -R -dalsa, or started by qjackctl) when I am root, but not
when I am an unprivileged user.
(use-modules (gnu)
(gnu services desktop)
(gnu services sound))
(operating-system
(bootloader
(bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-bootloader)))
(host-name "jack-os")
(file-systems (cons
(file-system
(type "ext4")
(mount-point "/")
(device (file-system-label "my-root")))
%base-file-systems))
(timezone "America/Boise")
(users (cons (user-account
(name "user")
(comment "not root")
(group "users")
(password (crypt "" "nr"))
(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
"audio" "video")))
%base-user-accounts))
(packages (cons*
(specification->package "ratpoison")
(specification->package "xterm")
(specification->package "icecat")
(specification->package "nss-certs")
(specification->package "qjackctl")
(specification->package "jack")
(specification->package "alsa-plugins")
%base-packages))
(services
(cons*
(pam-limits-service
(list
(pam-limits-entry "@audio" 'both 'rtprio 99)
(pam-limits-entry "@audio" 'both 'memlock 'unlimited)
(pam-limits-entry "@realtime" 'both 'rtprio 99)
(pam-limits-entry "@realtime" 'both 'memlock 'unlimited)))
%desktop-services))
(name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
