Ubuntu
audacity package

artsdsp causes crash on startup

Bug #114839 reported by Troy on 2007-05-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #76588: please clean sound system before run. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	audacity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: audacity

Using:

tlees@broken:~$ artsdsp audacity
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 15 11:41:56 2007
Disassembly: 0x0:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/audacity
Package: audacity 1.2.6-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: audacity
ProcCwd: /home/tlees
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: audacity
StacktraceTop:
?? ()
g_thread_self () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
gsl_thread_self () from /usr/lib/libartsflow.so.1
gsl_init () from /usr/lib/libartsflow.so.1
?? () from /usr/lib/libartsflow.so.1
Uname: Linux broken 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev scanner video

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Troy (launchpad-stormmage) wrote on 2007-05-15:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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ProcStatus.txt Edit (627 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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description:	updated
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2007-05-20: Symbolic stack trace

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (331 bytes, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:?? ()
IA__g_thread_self () at gthread.c:723
?? ()
?? ()
?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2007-05-20: Symbolic threaded stack trace

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (358 bytes, text/plain)

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2007-05-20:

I'm really not sure of the cause based on the available stacktraces. I am curious about your use case that requires artsdsp though. There have been a number of reports that audacity works better after `killall artsd`, and 1.2.6 has support for ALSA and JACK directly, to allow for alternate types of redirection.

Changed in audacity:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Troy (launchpad-stormmage) wrote on 2007-05-20:

I was attempting to solve 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."

And was following the instructions here:

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=LinuxIssues

Audacity crashed, the crash program asked if I wanted to submit a report, and I clicked yes.

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2007-05-20:

Thanks for the explanation. The Ubuntu build is not an OSS build, but is rather built against portaudiov19, to take advantage of ALSA and JACK. It should be safe to wait in excess of 60 seconds since the last system sound to start audacity. If this doesn't work, try `killall artsd` prior to starting audacity. You might want to take a look at http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity_PortAudio_v19 to see some of the issues and successes that other users of audacity 1.2 built against portaudiov19 have encountered.

I am marking this a duplicate of the bug that you were working around when you encountered this, as I believe that this crash is significantly less likely with audacity 1.3.2, and I suspect that users will be less likely to try the workaround with the new supported version.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2007-09-21:

[Expired for audacity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]