whysynth doesn't work

[Florin Andrei]

I got whysynth-dssi-20060122-7.src.rpm from here:

http://people.redhat.com/green/FE/devel/

I rebuilt it on FC6 without problems. The thing is, the GUI doesn't show 
  up. The program appears to be working, I see the outputs being 
automatically routed in qjackctl, but there's no GUI anywhere!

###############################################
$ jack-dssi-host whysynth.so

jack-dssi-host: Warning: DSSI path not set
jack-dssi-host: Defaulting to 
"/usr/local/lib/dssi:/usr/lib/dssi:/home/florin/.dssi"


jack-dssi-host: OSC URL is:
osc.udp://rivendell.home.local:15040/dssi/whysynth/WhySynth/chan00

host: Ready
WhySynth_gtk starting (pid 4305)...
###############################################

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

[Anthony Green]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:19 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>  I got whysynth-dssi-20060122-7.src.rpm from here:
>  
>  http://people.redhat.com/green/FE/devel/
>  
>  I rebuilt it on FC6 without problems. The thing is, the GUI doesn't show 
>    up. The program appears to be working, I see the outputs being 
>  automatically routed in qjackctl, but there's no GUI anywhere! 
Does your hostname resolve (or does "ping localhost" work?)? 

My fresh FC6 installation came with a broken /etc/hosts...

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
::1    localhost.localdomain   localhost

This makes sense for IPv6, but I'm not using IPv6.
Changing this to ...

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

...fixed a number of problems. I suspect it may help you as well, as I
understand that liblo (used for GUI communication) is sensitive to
problems like this.

AG

[Florin Andrei]

Anthony Green wrote:
>  
>  My fresh FC6 installation came with a broken /etc/hosts...
>  
>  # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
>  # that require network functionality will fail.
>  ::1    localhost.localdomain   localhost
>  
>  This makes sense for IPv6, but I'm not using IPv6.
>  Changing this to ...
>  
>  127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
>  
>  ...fixed a number of problems. 
I actually had both the IPv4 and the IPv6 lines. I commented out the 
IPv6 stuff.
Also, the IP address for the real hostname was broken too - I moved this 
machine to another net and I forgot to update /etc/hosts

So I fixed both issues and now whysynth is working. I am not sure which 
one was actually the cause.

I wonder why it's not using localhost, but the Ethernet address instead.

Thanks! :-)

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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[Anthony Green]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:19 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>  I got whysynth-dssi-20060122-7.src.rpm from here:
>  
>  http://people.redhat.com/green/FE/devel/
>   
By the way... I submitted this package for review 9 months ago today!
Can somebody please pick this up?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190029

Some other golden oldies...

hydrogen: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190040

caps: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190045


Thanks,

AG

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[Florin Andrei]

Anthony Green wrote:
>  
>  By the way... I submitted this package for review 9 months ago today!
>  Can somebody please pick this up?
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190029
>  
>  Some other golden oldies...
>  
>  hydrogen: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190040
>  
>  caps: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190045 
OK, that does it. What does it take to become a reviewer?
I've never been involved with Extras but I've built hundreds of RPMs.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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[Anthony Green]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 21:56 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>  OK, that does it. What does it take to become a reviewer?
>  I've never been involved with Extras but I've built hundreds of RPMs. 
Great!  Before you can review, you need to contribute a package of your
own...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors

Once you've had a package accepted you can start reviewing and approving
other packages.  Let me know when you've submitted something and I'll
review it quickly.

AG

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[Florin Andrei]

Anthony Green wrote:
>  
>  Great!  Before you can review, you need to contribute a package of your
>  own...
>  
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors
>  
>  Once you've had a package accepted you can start reviewing and approving
>  other packages.  Let me know when you've submitted something and I'll
>  review it quickly. 
Fernando, anything you may suggest I should pick up from PlanetCCRMA for 
migration to Extras?

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 13:47 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>  Anthony Green wrote:
>  > 
>  > Great!  Before you can review, you need to contribute a package of your
>  > own...
>  > 
>  > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors
>  > 
>  > Once you've had a package accepted you can start reviewing and approving
>  > other packages.  Let me know when you've submitted something and I'll
>  > review it quickly.
>  
>  Fernando, anything you may suggest I should pick up from PlanetCCRMA for 
>  migration to Extras? 
Hard to say. Qarecord and Timemachine are neat for recording (both are
Jack clients). Hmmm, Ardour is there but Jamin is not. And of course you
could pick up a LADSPA plugin collection from the many I currently host.
For all of them if you pick up the latest fc6 srpm you should be
close...

[if you do please try to keep the extra desktop categories I add to the
desktop entry, they make it possible to have a neat categorized menu
entry for audio apps]

I'm always meaning to add more to Extras but the process is long as you
will find out - time flies and tasks pile up too fast on my todo list. 

-- Fernando

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[Florin Andrei]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>  
>  Hard to say. Qarecord and Timemachine are neat for recording (both are
>  Jack clients). Hmmm, Ardour is there but Jamin is not. And of course you
>  could pick up a LADSPA plugin collection from the many I currently host.
>  For all of them if you pick up the latest fc6 srpm you should be
>  close... 
Jamin and LADSPA are very important. Lemme take a look...

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano schrieb:
>  On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 13:47 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > Anthony Green wrote:
> >> Great!  Before you can review, you need to contribute a package of your
> >> own...
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors
> >> Once you've had a package accepted you can start reviewing and approving
> >> other packages.  Let me know when you've submitted something and I'll
> >> review it quickly.
> > Fernando, anything you may suggest I should pick up from PlanetCCRMA for 
> > migration to Extras?
>  [...]
>  I'm always meaning to add more to Extras but the process is long as you
>  will find out - time flies and tasks pile up too fast on my todo list.  
Just my 2 cent: Maybe you guys should use the "MediaProduction Special
Interest Group"
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/MediaProduction
in a similar way as the Games SIG
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Games
-- e.g. maintain a list of packages in the wiki that are pending review
and try to exchange reviews between SIG members. That could speed up
things a lot -- I got the impression that many "normal" reviewers fear
to touch the "music packages" as they don't understand much about music
editing in general or jack.

CU
thl

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[Florin Andrei]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>  
>  Just my 2 cent: Maybe you guys should use the "MediaProduction Special
>  Interest Group"
>  http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/MediaProduction
>  in a similar way as the Games SIG
>  http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Games
>  -- e.g. maintain a list of packages in the wiki that are pending review
>  and try to exchange reviews between SIG members. That could speed up
>  things a lot -- I got the impression that many "normal" reviewers fear
>  to touch the "music packages" as they don't understand much about music
>  editing in general or jack. 
Great idea, but the amount of red tape surrounding Extras is staggering.

<sigh> I'll try and get edit permissions to the Wiki.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Florin Andrei wrote:

>  Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 
> > Just my 2 cent: Maybe you guys should use the "MediaProduction Special
> > Interest Group"
> > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/MediaProduction
> > in a similar way as the Games SIG
> > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Games
> > -- e.g. maintain a list of packages in the wiki that are pending review
> > and try to exchange reviews between SIG members. That could speed up
> > things a lot -- I got the impression that many "normal" reviewers fear
> > to touch the "music packages" as they don't understand much about
> music
> > editing in general or jack.
>
>  Great idea, but the amount of red tape surrounding Extras is staggering.
>
>  <sigh> I'll try and get edit permissions to the Wiki. 
For what it's worth, we're working to cut this down.  The barrier for 
working on the wiki in particular is way too high, and we know it.

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[Florin Andrei]

Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
>  
>  For what it's worth, we're working to cut this down.  The barrier for 
>  working on the wiki in particular is way too high, and we know it. 
Thank you!

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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[Florin Andrei]

Anthony Green wrote:
>  
>  Great!  Before you can review, you need to contribute a package of your
>  own... 
Done:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225114

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/

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[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 21:56 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>  Anthony Green wrote:
>  > 
>  > By the way... I submitted this package for review 9 months ago today!
>  > Can somebody please pick this up?
>  > 
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190029
>  > 
>  > Some other golden oldies...
>  > 
>  > hydrogen: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190040
>  > 
>  > caps: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190045
>  
>  OK, that does it. What does it take to become a reviewer?
>  I've never been involved with Extras but I've built hundreds of RPMs. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors

More help would be really appreciated...
I also have freqtweak and sooperlooper on the queue, languishing...

-- Fernando

whysynth review

[Anthony Green]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 11:27 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>  More help would be really appreciated...
>  I also have freqtweak and sooperlooper on the queue, languishing... 
Sorry Fernando.. I thought I was waiting on final updates from you for
those packages, aren't I?

AG

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[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:03 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
>  hydrogen: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190040
Heh, I was reviewing hydrogen and was almost done, but then bugzilla
died and... I kinda forgot about it. I should probably finish that up...