Audacity fails to run

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SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:26 pm

I run Gentoo - Linux amd64 ( 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 #7 Tue Jul 26 18:02:38 CEST
2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux )on
64bit OS with kde 3.4.1

I installed your application this way:
1. I allowed the system to install your applcation, which in portage is still
marked unsatble this way:
- I added this line to the file /etc/portage/package.keywords :
media-sound/audacity ~amd64
2. I run emerge audacity
It was installed this way: media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1 +encode +flac +gtk2
-libsamplerate +mad -oggvorbis
3. Succesfully installed, I selected from my menu bar your application. It
does try to load, but nothing is shown on my monitor.

So, I did look at my messages log and here is what I found:
Jul 10 18:02:59 mir audacity[10451]: segfault at 0000000000000019 rip
00002aaaac402a51 rsp 00007fffffffdc20 error 4

Here if it helps, my sound card (lspci -vvv):
0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: Unknown device 812a
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
Region 0: I/O ports at d800
Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at d2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Could you kindly telle what might be wrong?

thank you,
Spiro

BradN · Post by **BradN** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:12 am

You could try emerging strace, and then running
strace audacity
in a terminal to see if you can spot what it's doing before it crashes that might be causing it.

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:45 am

Hi BradN,

great advice. I was not aware of this package.

Here is the output:

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munmap(0x2aaaaeb81000, 4096)            = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf-gentium/fonts.cache-1", O_RDONLY) = 6
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf-gentium", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf-gentium/fonts.cache-1", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3376, ...}) = 0
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3376, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaeb81000
read(6, "\"GentiumAItI.ttf\" 0 \"GentiumAlt:"..., 4096) = 3376
read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(6)                                = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaeb81000, 4096)            = 0
open("/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/fonts.cache-1", O_RDONLY) = 6
stat("/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/fonts.cache-1", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24346, ...}) = 0
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24346, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaeb81000
read(6, "\"a010013l.pfb\" 0 \"URW Gothic L:s"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "mg|mh|mk|mt|nb|nl|nn|no|ny|oc|om"..., 4096) = 4096
brk(0xaaa000)                           = 0xaaa000
read(6, "!!!+ !!+u{!!!!)       :lang=aa|a"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "imbus Sans L:style=Bold Condense"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "|bg|bi|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "e=True:charset=  |>^1!|>^1!P0oWQ"..., 4096) = 3866
read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(6)                                = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaeb81000, 4096)            = 0
open("/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large/fonts.cache-1", O_RDONLY) = 6
stat("/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large/fonts.cache-1", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaeb81000
read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(6)                                = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaeb81000, 4096)            = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large/fonts.cache-1", O_RDONLY) = 6
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large/fonts.cache-1", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaeb81000
read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(6)                                = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaeb81000, 4096)            = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/default/ghostscript/fonts.cache-1", O_RDONLY) = 6
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/default/ghostscript", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/default/ghostscript/fonts.cache-1", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24346, ...}) = 0
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24346, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaeb81000
read(6, "\"a010013l.pfb\" 0 \"URW Gothic L:s"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "mg|mh|mk|mt|nb|nl|nn|no|ny|oc|om"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "!!!+ !!+u{!!!!)       :lang=aa|a"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "imbus Sans L:style=Bold Condense"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "|bg|bi|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co"..., 4096) = 4096
read(6, "e=True:charset=  |>^1!|>^1!P0oWQ"..., 4096) = 3866
read(6, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(6)                                = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaeb81000, 4096)            = 0
mmap(NULL, 303104, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaeb81000
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY)             = 6
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=219, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaebcb000
read(6, "/dev/sda3 / ext3 rw 0 0\nproc /pr"..., 4096) = 219
close(6)                                = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaebcb000, 4096)            = 0
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY)         = 6
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaaaebcb000
read(6, "MemTotal:      1025596 kB\nMemFre"..., 1024) = 604
close(6)                                = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaebcb000, 4096)            = 0
munmap(0x2aaaaeb81000, 303104)          = 0
stat("/usr/lib64/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9816, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib64/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so", O_RDONLY) = 6
read(6, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\260\20\0"..., 640) = 640
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9816, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 1056192, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 6, 0) = 0x2aaaaeb81000
mprotect(0x2aaaaeb83000, 1048000, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x2aaaaec82000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 6, 0x1000) = 0x2aaaaec82000
close(6)                                = 0
brk(0xacb000)                           = 0xacb000
open("/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 6
fcntl(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)           = 0
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=65932, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 65932, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 6, 0) = 0x2aaaaec83000
close(6)                                = 0
write(2, "\n(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL "..., 91
(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_new: assertion `string != NULL' failed
) = 91
write(2, "\n(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL "..., 98
(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed
) = 98
write(2, "\n(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL "..., 97
(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_add: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
) = 97
write(2, "\n(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL "..., 122
(audacity:15385): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget: assertion `GTK_IS_ACCEL_LABEL (accel_label)' failed
) = 122
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Any idea?

Also, in konsole (KDE) is there a way to retain the entire list of executed lines (mostly from the beginning)? at the end, when it stops, if I go back to the beginning to where I run strace audacity, I do not find the very beginning. Has it to do with konsole settings?

thank you,
Spiro

BradN · Post by **BradN** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 4:07 pm

It looks like it's crashing because of gtk or pango, but I don't really know how one would go about fixing that, other than trying newer versions of those.

As for the buffer size in konsole, look for an option called "history".

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:54 pm

Hi BradN,

I thank you very much for your kind assistance.
I have opened a bug report asking for help. I wil wait for an answer and report here the solution, if any.

FYI: Here is the bug I opened: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100741

Thank you,
Spiro

xevix · Post by **xevix** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:19 pm

Running "LANG=C audacity" the first time to choose the language makes it run fine, thereafter you can run audacity by the usual "audacity" and it's working fine. Problem solved for me.

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:42 pm

Hi,

this is what I get:

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~ $ LANG=C audacity

(audacity:2519): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_new: assertion `string != NULL' failed

(audacity:2519): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed

(audacity:2519): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_add: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(audacity:2519): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget: assertion `GTK_IS_ACCEL_LABEL (accel_label)' failed
Segmentation fault

Could you please give me some hints as have been unable for months not to use this application. What a pitty.

Running gentoo on amd64.

Thank you,
Spiro

xevix · Post by **xevix** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:26 pm

Give me output of "gcc-config -l"

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:30 pm

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# gcc-config -l
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
 [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
 [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp
 [5] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:22 pm

Hi xevix,

Here some notes from audacity team:
"At a minimum, Audacity 1.2.x requires [wxWidgets]. Currently we recommend using version 2.4.0. You're welcome to use any 2.4.x release, but there were some new bugs in 2.4.1 that cause problems, so the Audacity developers are mostly sticking with 2.4.0. Audacity will not work with wxX11 (as it's incomplete, and things like dialogues are missing that we need), or with unicode builds of wxWidgets (so configure with --disable-unicode)"

"Audacity does not currently support the Unicode or GTK2 builds of wxWidgets. When configuring wxWidgets on Unix, make sure you don't enable these features"

But,
"Audacity 1.3 (unstable)
The development branch of audacity (version 1.3, currently only in CVS) requires wxWidgets 2.6.0 or higherUnicode and GTK2 builds are supported by default. Older development versions (2.5.x) may not work, so get the current wxWidgets 2.6 release."

So, what does this mean or translate into?

I currently have x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2
Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 #5 Thu Sep 29 13:16:16 CEST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Is there anything like audacity, simple but effective untill audacity 1.3 comes out?

Thank you,
Spiro

GNUtritious · Post by **GNUtritious** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:45 pm

Try the following:

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echo "x11-libs/wxGTK -gtk2 -unicode wxgtk1" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "media-sound/audacity -gtk2" >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -v =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3 =media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1

Hope that helps.

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:18 pm

Hi GNUtritious,

Thanks to you it is the first time I am able to compile and install and run audacity. Great job.

Here is the output of:

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# emerge -pv =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3 =media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3  -debug -gtk2* +odbc +opengl -unicode* +wxgtk1* 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1  +encode +flac -gtk2* -libsamplerate +mad +oggvorbis 0 kB

As you can see +wxgtk1*

Thank you,
Spiro

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:42 pm

Now, when I run it I get this error: Error Initializing Audio. There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer.
You will not be able to play or record audio.
Error: Host error.

Any hints on this?

Thank you,
Spiro

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:45 pm

Is it possible that nobody knows how to solve this issue?

Strange......

thank you
Spiro

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:03 pm

I am running Pentium4 and my flags are currently:

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Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3  -debug +gtk2 -odbc +opengl -unicode -wxgtk1 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1  +encode +flac +gtk2 -libsamplerate +mad +oggvorbis 0 kB

and I use audacity quite a often
Mvh

edit: according to unclepine:

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media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1
HAS THESE DEPENDENCIES:
        * app-arch/zip-2.3-r4
        * media-libs/flac-1.1.2-r3
        * media-libs/id3lib-3.8.3-r3
        * media-libs/ladspa-sdk-1.12-r2
        * media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b
        * media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b
        * media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.11
        * media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0
        * media-sound/lame-3.96.1
        * sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 (S)
        * x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:28 pm

Hi Cintra,

Here is my data:

x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3 -debug -gtk2 +odbc +opengl -unicode +wxgtk1
media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1 +encode +flac -gtk2 -libsamplerate +mad +oggvorbis

app-arch/zip-2.3-r4 +crypt
media-libs/flac-1.1.2-r3 [1.1.1] (-3dnow) -debug +doc +ogg (-sse) +xmms
media-libs/id3lib-3.8.3-r3 +doc
media-libs/ladspa-sdk-1.12-r2
media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b -debug
media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b -debug
media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.11 -static
media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0 -aotuv
media-sound/lame-3.96.1 -debug +gtk
sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 -build -static
// When I type emerge wxGTK I get this: //
x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2 [2.6.1] +X -debug +doc -gnome -joystick +odbc +opengl +sdl -unicode*
// keep in mind that I run gentoo amdt64 //

Now, I have both wxGTK-2.6.2 and wxGTK-2.4.2-r3 and that I installed audacity this way:

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emerge -pv =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3 =media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1

I see some differences in my use flags and yours. Could that be that this is the issue?

Please advice...

thank you,
Spiro

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:46 pm

Hei SAngeli

I would try removing the -gtk2 flag from wherever you have put it (make.conf or package.use ?) and re-emerge with --newuse option.

Btw, my USE flags in make.conf are:

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USE="a52 aac audiofile cddb cdparanoia dts dvd dvdr dvdread javascript live
     lm_sensors mmx network nptl ppds real rtc sse sse2 theora usb win32codecs
     xvid -fortran -gnome -gtk"

Mvh

SAngeli · Post by **SAngeli** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:15 am

Good morning Cintra,

Here is my current use settings 8as audacity compiled):

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- - gtk2          : Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both.
 + + encode        : Adds support for encoding of audio or video files
 + + flac          : Adds support for the flac audio codec
 + + mad           : Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend)
 + + oggvorbis     : <unknown>
 - - libsamplerate : Build with libsamplerate support

I already did what you ad viced me to but without any kind of result. I did not apply -gtk2 system wide rather I remove gtk2 this way into /etc/portage/package.use

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x11-libs/wxGTK -gtk2 -unicode wxgtk1
media-sound/audacity -gtk2 -unicode

And, this is the proper output at emerge time:

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x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r3 -debug -gtk2 +odbc +opengl -unicode +wxgtk1
media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1 +encode +flac -gtk2 -libsamplerate +mad +oggvorbi

Moreover, I have gtk and gtk2 enabled on another x86 PC and audacity works perfectly.

Now, I just finished to update my system and am ready to perform world updated (-uD).
If I would apply (emerge -pvuD --newuse world) the only packages I see with * are:

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[ebuild   R   ] media-gfx/xsane-0.97  +gimp -gtk2* +jpeg +nls +png +tiff 0 kB

So, not such of a big deal.
Now, before I remove system wide gtk2 please explain to me why should I remove it (although I use kde). This because before I do so, I wish to understand/learn the benefits and disadvantages toward applications.

So, as of now, I have my audacity compiled and loading; something I never achieved before. Could it be that the Error Initializing Audio. There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer refers to something else? I ask this because I do not know the direct relation between gtk2 and the above error, seeing that audacity at least loads.

Any other hints? Please advice/explain...

thank you for assisting me,
Spiro

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:29 am

Just to make sure you didn't misunderstand me above,
the following print-out shows which USE flags my audacity is installed with:

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 # equery uses audacity
...
[ Found these USE variables for media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1 ]
 U I
 + + encode        : Adds support for encoding of audio or video files
 + + flac          : Adds support for the flac audio codec
 + + gtk2          : Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both.
 - - libsamplerate : Build with libsamplerate support
 + + mad           : Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend)
 + + oggvorbis     : <unknown>

mvh