On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:58:37 -0400
Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a long-standing problem. While it is not intentional, sometimes
> newcomers to jack on Linux tend to pull out the soundcard (USB) before
> shutting down jack. This results in jack permanently hanging to the
> point where one has to force-shutdown the machine. That is at least the
> case on Ubuntu 14.04 (and was on 12.04) with lowlatency kernel. Trying
> to do sudo killall -9 jackd makes no difference. Essentially, it is
> impossible to destroy the process and reboot hangs because of it.
>
> Any idea what can be done to minimize this problem or alleviate it
> altogether?
>
> Best,
>
> Ico
a workaround is from a terminal type:
pidof jackd
you'll get a number such as 3772
then type
kill -9 3772
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