Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] "Floating exception"

[Pete S. <pst...@ve...>]

Sorry for taking so long to reply.  I just got back from a week long 
vacation.

RV = Robert Vogel
RV> I created the file 'jazz' in my home directory,

I take it you mean the Jazz++ binary?

RV> but when I started it the dialog box appeared
RV> asking me to identify the location of the
RV> jazz.conf file.

Jazz++ will do this if it cannot find the configuration file when it 
starts.  This may occur when you first run the executable or if you move 
or erase the configuration file.  The code is prompting you to indicate 
the location of the configuration file.  It will record this location 
once you specify it, and you should not be prompted for it on successive 
Jazz++ session (if you don't erase or move it, of course).

RV> At this point I navigated the dialog box to
RV> (home)/jazzplusplus/trunk/jazz/conf at which point
RV> it does find a jazz.conf file.

Was it jazz.conf or jazz.cnf?

RV> On open, it says it can't find the config
RV> file and it locks up looking like the
RV> attached screen shot.
RV>
RV> It looks like the path error occurs before the
RV> dialog box appears.  When I navigate to the cfg
RV> file it produces a dialog box warning, and then
RV> locks up for a number of seconds.
RV>
RV> After a while it says the box is not responding
RV> and I force quit. Again, here is a screen shot.

Looking at you screen shot, it looks like the configuration file was 
found, and it successfully read most of it.  See the line that indicates 
the reading of "gs.jzi".  This file name is specified in the Jazz++ 
configuration file.  The configuration file is ASCII.  You can use

$ cat jazz.cnf

to view the contents.

The "gs.jzi" file is also ASCII, so you can use "cat" to view the 
contents.  It includes the other configuration files ("gsdrmset.jzi", 
"gmdrmnam.jzi", "gsvoices.jzi", and "ctrlnam.jzi") listed in your screen 
shot.  It looks like all of these were successfully read.

My current guess is the information at the bottom of the jazz.cnf file. 
  It has ALSA input and output devices and a default MIDI file to load. 
  The path for the default MIDI file has a path that includes on of the 
prior Jazz++ developer names in it and is incorrect for your machine.

Try removing the following lines from jazz.cnf using your favorite editor.

.alsa_input_device 1
.alsa_output_device 2
.startup_song /home/joakim/music/moogtest.mid

Did that help?

RV> ...so I rebooted.

You could just kill the jazz process...

You had to reboot the machine :-(

I'm sorry about that.  Maybe when the code attached to an ALSA device 
(indicated by the line that says "created client:port 136:0") and it 
froze, not gracefully disconecting from the ALSA driver was the problem.

RV> It must be that it now finds the files I added
RV> (jazz is in my home directory now) because it
RV> comes up with the player screen.

On the next invocation it should automatically find the configuration file.

RV> Only thing is alsa doesn't see it anymore. :(

Are you sure you rebooted the system?

BTW I'm downloading the Debian DVD iso's.  Are you using 4.0 r3?

Pete