[PD] .43.4 and ubuntu 10.04 error / wont launch gui

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Jan 10 01:17:26 CET 2013


On 01/09/2013 06:44 PM, Rick T wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:31 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>> On 01/10/2013 00:13, Rick T wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's what comes back with no GUI
>>>
>>> vmpd at vmpd-desktop:~$ pd-extended
>>> priority 6 scheduling enabled.
>>> priority 8 scheduling enabled.
>>> jackd 0.118.0
>>
>>
>>
>> could you try starting PdX without jack?
>> something like:
>> $ pd-extended -alsa
> 
> ok this didn't work no gui and no error message
> 
>>
>> or even
>>
>> $ pd-extended -nosound
> 
> The gui did come back this is what was in the terminal window
> vmpd at vmpd-desktop:~$ pd-extended -nosound
> priority 6 scheduling enabled.
> priority 8 scheduling enabled.
> open: /etc/pd/gem.conf: No such file or directory
> open: /home/vmpd/.pd/gem.conf: No such file or directory
> open: ./gem.conf: No such file or directory
> 
> And this is what was in the gui window

Ah, I see.  So the issue is actually with your connection to Jack.
Pd-extended started, but got hung up somehow on Jack.  You can kill any old
instances in the Terminal using 'killall pd'.

There is a new "singleton" mode where the first instance of Pd claims the
"PUREDATA" X11 selection, and new instances talk to the first one via the
PUREDATA X11 selection. So my guess is then you probably tried starting
Pd-extended again from the menu, and the singleton was claimed by the first
instance but it hadn't claimed the PUREDATA selection. Therefore the new
instance got confused and gave you that error.

> WARNING: 64-bit builds are still beta, some libraries are known to
> have serious issues (cyclone, maxlib, moonlib, moocow, pdp, bsaylor,
> etc.

That's a new warning added to point out a long standing condition.  Those
libraries have objects that never worked properly on 64-bit.

> flatspace: can't load library
> memento: can't load library
> rradical: can't load library
> pixeltango: can't load library
> toxy: can't load library
> flib: can't load library
> pidip: can't load library

Reset your preferences to fix this.  Go to Edit->Preferences and click "Reset
to Defaults".

.hc


> 
>>
>>>
>>> One thing I noticed is that the limits.conf for 10.04 is located in
>>> etc/security/ but the message is telling me to change the file in etc/
>>
>>
>> this is unrelated. various distributions put those files in different places
>> (though it seems that at least on debian derivatives there is a consensus to
>> use directories for configurations where potentially multiple "agents"
>> (sysadmins as well as packages) want to add/remove their little bits), and
>> nobody cared to modify the jack sources for your distribution to print out
>> the correct filename.
>>
>> nevertheless, you probably should change your limits according to the
>> suggestion you got.
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> PUREDATA selection doesn't exist or form "STRING" not defined
>>>>> PUREDATA selection doesn't exist or form "STRING" not defined
>>>>>      while executing
>>>>> "selection get -selection PUREDATA"
>>>>>      (procedure "first_lost" line 2)
>>>>>      invoked from within
>>>>> "first_lost"
>>
>>
>> does this also happen with Pd-0.44 (e.g. from git)?
>>
> I haven't tried .44 as of yet only the .43.4 version
> 
> thanks
> 
>> fgmadsr
>> IOhannes
>>
>>
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