[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#874208: octave: audiodevinfo makes octave segfault when jackd is running

[Peter P.]

* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2017-09-08 17:26]:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:55:21 +0200, Peter P. wrote:
> > The two other programs I have installed that are using libportaudio2 are
> > pure-data and audacity. And they both work with and without jack.
> 
> And here's what I just did to test locally. This is admittedly an
> absolutely minimal unconfigured jack setup.
> 
>     $ sudo aptitude install -y --without-recommends jackd2
>     $ jack_control start
>     $ octave-cli
>     >> devs = audiodevinfo;  ## no crash
>     >> devs.output.Name
>     ans = HDA Intel HDMI: 0 (hw:0,3) (ALSA)
>     ans = HDA Intel HDMI: 1 (hw:0,7) (ALSA)
>     ans = HDA Intel HDMI: 2 (hw:0,8) (ALSA)
>     ans = HDA Intel HDMI: 3 (hw:0,9) (ALSA)
>     ans = HDA Intel HDMI: 4 (hw:0,10) (ALSA)
>     ans = hdmi (ALSA)
>     ans = default (ALSA)
>     ans = system (JACK Audio Connection Kit)
> 
> Seems to work for me.
Thank you Mike, switching to jackd2 does work for me as well! I am a bit
hesitant to switch my system to jackd2 as there are some other
applications that depend (more) on jackd1. I wonder if this workaround,
for which I am very thankful, means that the crash with jackd1 will not
me looked into further, or if it may be worked on nevertheless.

best, Peter