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

Rick T ratulloch at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 01:59:02 CET 2013


Thanks That fixed it


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> 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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