Qsynth fails to connect to jack: zombified - calling shutdown handler

[hanzomon4]

Binary package hint: qsynth

This just started a few days ago... I start qjackctl then qsynth and get this error message in the qsynth message window:

"SSE2 detected
zombified - calling shutdown handler
fluidsynth: error: Help! Lost the connection to the JACK server
SSE2 detected
zombified - calling shutdown handler
fluidsynth: error: Help! Lost the connection to the JACK server"

and this in a popup

"Qsynth: Failed to create the audio driver (jack)
cannot continue without it"

Sometimes it works but then I get a massive amount of xruns that eventually cause everything to get kicked out of the jackd server.

I tried to run fluidsynth from the CLI, while qysynth was running, to get more info and I got this error message:

"lash_open_socket: could not connect to host 'localhost', service '14541'
lash_comm_connect_to_server: could not create server connection
SSE2 detected
Connected to JACK server with client name 'LASH_Server'
Opened ALSA sequencer with client ID 131
Listening for connections
Created project project-1 in directory /home/hanzomon4/audio-projects/project-1
Added client 0960ff78-33a3-491f-9dd9-7d37a46b01c3 of class fluidsynth to project project-1
cannot read response from jack server (No such file or directory)
fluidsynth: error: Jack server not running?
Failed to create the audio driver
Client 0960ff78-33a3-491f-9dd9-7d37a46b01c3 removed from project project-1
Project project-1 removed"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 20 09:33:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: qsynth 0.2.5-2.2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.152-rt
SourcePackage: qsynth
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt x86_64