On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 11:10 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 14:17 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > > Hi Jesse,
> > > 
> > > > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
> > > > JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to
> > > > use
> > > > realtime scheduling.
> > > > grep: /etc/security/limits.conf: No such file or directory
> > > > Please check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the following
> > > > line
> > > > and correct/add it if necessary:
> > > >   @audio          -       rtprio          99
> > > 
> > > Why doesn’t /etc/security/limits.conf ekxist?  Have you
> > > reconfigured
> > > your
> > > system with the limits service that is suggested in the manual?
> > > 
> > 
> > I added the pam-limits-service, reconfigured, and restarted but the
> > issue persists. 
> 
> This is very strange and I can’t reproduce the problem :-/
> 
> Your configuration looks okay.
> 

The attached system definition replicates this behavior in a VM. jackd
works (jack -R -dalsa, or started by qjackctl) when I am root, but not
when I am an unprivileged user.