Anybody else out there having Ardour zombified with a region underrun?Everyonce in a while

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

The last message from Ardour is the well-known “Ardour was kicked by Jack because the HD was not fast enough…” Ardour keeps being operational until I evoke an action that would access the harddrive (e.g. save the project etc.).

I am quite stunned by that - not even shutdown or reboot succeed. The only way, to get rid of ardours zombie and to regain access to the harddisk is to restart the box the MSWin-way: hit the reset-button.

Of course I wonder, if I could be the reason of this machinations but hansons razor did not cut to the real thing yet :wink:

So are there more victims of that out there?

I filed a bugreport with more details:

http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2100

#2

A safer way to restart an apparently frozen Linux box (even when you cannot Ctl-Alt-F1 to a console or ssh into it) is the key combination:
Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Skinny_Elephants_Is_Utterly_Boring#Raising_Elephants

Give it a few seconds between keystrokes, particularly (S)ync.