[gentoo-user] Problems with Jack D.

[tuxic]

Hi,

I have some strange problems with jackd.

1.) With my setup it ha worked for a long time. 
2.) Suddenly it stops working (cant say, when exactly but I guess in
the last month.
3.) Symptoms:
When starting qjackctrl, the gui does not start. Instead no
mouse action is working anymore except for cursor movements.
I have to CTRL-C qjackstrl.

Jackd does not play sound. If jackd is started, waterfox/palemoon
do not play sound (YouTube for example), firefox, which was
compiled to use alsa directly works.
When jackd is stopped, waterfox/palemoon produce sound.

The kernel log files do not show anything suspicious.
/var/jackd.log is empty but of a current timestamp.

I recompiled both jackd and qjackctrl with no successful
result using the compiled execytables.

I tried to start jackd as user and as root to possibly find permission
problems, but jackd does not work in both cases.

What can I do to get them working again?

Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
Cheers!
Meino

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-03-16, the...@sys-concept.com  wrote:
> On 03/15/2018 11:04 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:

>>> Instead of removing pdftk from the portage tree because it depends on
>>> gcc-5.4 [gcj], is there any reason it can't be replace by the one
>>> which uses a jvm instead?
>> 
>> Someone needs to maintain it as well.
>
> From the "pdftk- --help"
> -quote--
> AUTHOR
>Sid Steward (sid.steward at pdflabs dot com) maintains pdftk.  Please
>email him with questions or bug reports.  Include pdftk in the
> subject
>line to ensure successful delivery.  Thank you.
> -end quote---

Sid Steward is the "maintainer" of the original Java/C++ version of
pdftk that lives at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/.

The last change was almost 5 years ago, so I think it's safe to assume
it's been abandoned.

What needs maintaining for the new ebuild is

 1) The new java-only upstream version of pdftk that lives at
https://gitlab.com/marcvinyals/pdftk/

 2) The ebuild itself

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

[thelma]

On 03/15/2018 11:04 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On March 15, 2018 9:35:35 PM UTC, Grant Edwards  
> wrote:
>> On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com  wrote:
>>
>>> I've compiled the pdftk- (java based)
>>> gcc-5.4.0-r4 is gone and pdftk is working as it should.
>>>
>>> Thank you everybody for the help.
>>
>> That's great news!
>>
>> Instead of removing pdftk from the portage tree because it depends on
>> gcc-5.4 [gcj], is there any reason it can't be replace by the one
>> which uses a jvm instead?
> 
> Someone needs to maintain it as well.

>From the "pdftk- --help"
-quote--
AUTHOR
   Sid Steward (sid.steward at pdflabs dot com) maintains pdftk.  Please
   email him with questions or bug reports.  Include pdftk in the
subject
   line to ensure successful delivery.  Thank you.
-end quote---

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

[thelma]

On 03/16/2018 09:42 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-03-15, Grant Edwards  wrote:
>> On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com  wrote:
>>
>>> I've compiled the pdftk- (java based)
>>> gcc-5.4.0-r4 is gone and pdftk is working as it should.
>>>
>>> Thank you everybody for the help.
>>
>> That's great news!
> 
> FWIW, I grabbed the non-gcj ebuild from my previous post and it
> installed and works without a problem (on my machine, it did pull in
> about 9 dev-java dependencies).

I've posted/reply to this but:
 https://bugs.gentoo.org/562568

So this "pdftk-" might enter the testing stage.

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[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-03-15, Grant Edwards  wrote:
> On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com  wrote:
>
>> I've compiled the pdftk- (java based)
>> gcc-5.4.0-r4 is gone and pdftk is working as it should.
>>
>> Thank you everybody for the help.
>
> That's great news!

FWIW, I grabbed the non-gcj ebuild from my previous post and it
installed and works without a problem (on my machine, it did pull in
about 9 dev-java dependencies).

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