Critical error! - Could not boot Sonic Pi Server.

[estruzik]

Sonic Pi Boot Error Report

System Information

• Sonic Pi version: 3.2.2
• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

GUI Log

/home/user/.sonic-pi/log/gui.log

[GUI] - Welcome to the Sonic Pi GUI
[GUI] - ===========================
[GUI] -                            
[GUI] - {b8c1bf75-a670-4859-9c58-c635499b0da9}
[GUI] - Discovering port numbers...
[GUI] - Port entry server-listen-to-gui : 51235 : 51235
[GUI] - Port entry gui-send-to-server : 51235 : 51235
[GUI] - Port entry gui-listen-to-server : 51236 : 51236
[GUI] - Port entry server-send-to-gui : 51236 : 51236
[GUI] - Port entry scsynth : 51237 : 51237
[GUI] - Port entry scsynth-send : 51237 : 51237
[GUI] - Port entry osc-midi-out : 51238 : 51238
[GUI] - Port entry osc-midi-in : 51239 : 51239
[GUI] - Port entry server-osc-cues : 4560 : 4560
[GUI] - Port entry erlang-router : 51240 : 51240
[GUI] - Port entry websocket : 51241 : 51241
[GUI] - Detecting port numbers...
[GUI] - GUI listen to server port 51236
[GUI] -    port: 51236 [OK]
[GUI] - Server listen to gui port 51235
[GUI] -    port: 51235 [OK]
[GUI] - Server incoming OSC cues port 4560
[GUI] -    port: 4560 [OK]
[GUI] - Scsynth port 51237
[GUI] -    port: 51237 [OK]
[GUI] - Server send to GUI port 51236
[GUI] -    port: 51236 [OK]
[GUI] - GUI send to server port 51235
[GUI] -    port: 51235 [OK]
[GUI] - Scsynth send port 51237
[GUI] -    port: 51237 [OK]
[GUI] - Erlang router port 51240
[GUI] -    port: 51240 [OK]
[GUI] - OSC MIDI out port 51238
[GUI] -    port: 51238 [OK]
[GUI] - OSC MIDI in port 51239
[GUI] -    port: 51239 [OK]
[GUI] - Websocket port 51241
[GUI] -    port: 51241 [OK]
[GUI] - All ports OK
[GUI] - launching Sonic Pi Runtime Server:
[GUI] - Ruby server pid registered: 7311
[GUI] - hiding main window
[GUI] - initialising toolbar icons
[GUI] - setting up window structure
[GUI] - restoring scope states 
[GUI] - creating status bar
[GUI] - creating info panel
[GUI] - creating shortcuts
[GUI] - creating tool bar
[GUI] - initialising documentation window
[GUI] - wait for sync
[GUI] - waiting for Sonic Pi Server to boot...
[GUI] - starting UDP OSC Server on port 51236...
[GUI] - UDP OSC Server ready and listening
............................................................
[GUI] - Critical error! Could not boot Sonic Pi Server.
[GUI] - stopping UDP OSC Server...
[GUI] - Critical Error. Unable to connect to server..
[GUI] - UDP OSC Server no longer listening

Server Errors

/home/user/.sonic-pi/log/server-errors.log

no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode
JackTemporaryException : now quits...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode
JackTemporaryException : now quits...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
terminate called without an active exception

Server Output

/home/user/.sonic-pi/log/server-output.log

Sonic Pi server booting...
This is version 3.2.0 running on Ruby 2.7.4.
The time is 2024-03-25 22:48:12 -0500
Using primary protocol: udp
Detecting port numbers...
Listen port: 51235
  - OK
Scsynth port: 51237
  - OK
Scsynth send port: 51237
  - OK
OSC cues port: 4560
  - OK
Erlang port: 51240
  - OK
OSC MIDI out port: 51238
  - OK
OSC MIDI in port: 51239
  - OK
Websocket port: 51241
  - OK
Opening UDP Server to listen to GUI on port: 51235
Starting Server Runtime
Booting server...


Booting Sonic Pi
----------------

Booting on Linux
Jackd not running on system. Starting...
jackdmp 1.9.17
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2016 Grame.
Copyright 2016-2021 Filipe Coelho.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|2048|3|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
Released audio card Audio0
audio_reservation_finish
Started [7337] [-] jackd [-] /tmp/sonic-pi-pids/7337
Boot - Starting the SuperCollider server...
Boot - scsynth -u 51237 -m 131072 -a 1024 -D 0 -R 0 -l 1 -i 16 -o 16 -b 4096 -B 127.0.0.1
Started [7344] [-] scsynth -u 51237 -m 131072 -a 1024 -D 0 -R 0 -l 1 -i 16 -o 16 -b 4096 -B 127.0.0.1 [-] /tmp/sonic-pi-pids/7344

Scsynth Output

/home/user/.sonic-pi/log/scsynth.log

# Starting SuperCollider 2024-03-25 22:48:14
Found 0 LADSPA plugins
jackdmp 1.9.17
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2016 Grame.
Copyright 2016-2021 Filipe Coelho.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
Released audio card Audio0
audio_reservation_finish
could not initialize audio.

Process Log

/home/user/.sonic-pi/log/processes.log

No pids store found here: /tmp/sonic-pi-pids
Exiting
Creating pids store: /tmp/sonic-pi-pids
Started [7311] [-] /usr/bin/ruby -E utf-8 /usr/lib/sonic-pi/app/server/ruby/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb -u 51235 51236 51237 51237 4560 51240 51238 51239 51241 [-] /tmp/sonic-pi-pids/7311
Started [7337] [-] jackd [-] /tmp/sonic-pi-pids/7337
Started [7344] [-] scsynth -u 51237 -m 131072 -a 1024 -D 0 -R 0 -l 1 -i 16 -o 16 -b 4096 -B 127.0.0.1 [-] /tmp/sonic-pi-pids/7344

[rbnpi]

Version 3.2.2 which is the OS repository for the Bullseye OS has problems. The version which does have some support for this OS is version 4.3 which can be downloaded from this page
https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/releases/tag/v4.3.0
scroll down to find links to the 32 or 64 bit versions of 4.3 for the Raspberry PI and download the binary .deb file
choose the version appropriate to your OS

I would remove version 3.2.2 by typing sudo apt purge sonic-pi in a terminal window.
Make sure your OS is up to date using sudo apt update followed by sudo apt upgrade
You can install the new version by navigating to the downloads folder and then typing
sudo apt install ./sonic-pi_4.3.0_1_bullseye.armhf.deb (for the 32 bit versions)
or
sudo apt install ./sonic-pi_4.3.0_1_bullseye.arm64.deb (for the 64 bit version)
Once installed I would reboot your raspberry PI before launching Sonic Pi from the Menu entry in the Programming Section.

If you upgrade your OS in the future to the latest version of the Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian Bookworm you will need to upgrade Sonic Pi again. The latest version is 4.5 but this only works on the 64bit version of the OS IT is available on the sonic-pi.net website.