Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth process problems

[Rui Nuno Capela]

> Garett Shulman
> In an attempt to correct this problem on my machine, I have determined
> that the problem is related to fluidsynth 1.0.5 and appears to be kernel
> indapendant.  Does anybody else experience a similar problem when they
> try to start fluidsynth 1.0.5 in the background or from a shell script?
>
> Garett Shulman wrote:
>
>> Hello, I recently setup a new 2.4.28 kernel with the lck patchset and
>> am now having some strange issues with fluidsynth. If I just run it
>> normaly it works fine. However, If I use an & after the command to
>> background fluidsynth the process get emmediatly stopped (not killed,
>> just stopped). I can start other programs in this way without issue
>> (alsaplayer, and linuxsampler). Also, if I try to start fluidsynth
>> from a shell script with the & after the command in the shell script
>> fluidsynth appears to start but after it loads it seems to exit (or be
>> killed). I can see a single fluidsynth process when I ps right after
>> running the script, but after I see the fluidsynth initialization
>> messages a "ps -A | grep fluid" shows nothing. If anyone has any ideas
>> or suggestions as to ways I might trouble shoot this problem I would
>> be very appreciative. Thanks. -Garett
>>

Have a look into the man page, -i/--no-shell and -s/--server command line
options. Example:

    fluidsynth -s -i <soudfonts> &

Cheers.
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