[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 1178272] Re: Without pulseaudio, gstreamer applications report "jack server is not running or cannot be started" and do not play

[Rüdiger Kupper]

Correction: The problem appears with Banshee and Rhythmbox, but it does not appear with Quod Libet, which also uses GStreamer.
This may mean it's not a GStreamer problem at all, but more a problem of correctly using GStreamer.

** Also affects: banshee (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Summary changed:

- Without pulseaudio, gstreamer applications report "jack server is not running or cannot be started" and do not play
+ Without pulseaudio, banshee and rhythmbox report "jack server is not running or cannot be started" and do not play

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Title:
  Without pulseaudio, banshee and rhythmbox report "jack server is not
  running or cannot be started" and do not play

Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gstreamer0.10” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Lubuntu Raring (13.04).
  The Lubuntu standard installation comes without jack, and without pulse, just plain alsa. Gstreamer applications (rhythmbox, banshee) used to work fine after installing "ubuntu-restricted-extras", which pulls in the usual gstreamer plugins.
  On my system, gstreamer applications stopped working. They report:
  > Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
  > Cannot connect to server request channel
  > jack server is not running or cannot be started
  Since there is no jack on this system, never was, and is not intended to be there, I cannot understand this message. The applications do not produce sound.

  This looks like gstreamer tries to start up jackd, regardless whether
  it is installed or not.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu May  9 15:38:20 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-12 (85 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (13 days ago)

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