Bug#443955: audacity crashes during the start-up if the configuration file is non existent
Hello,
I fail to reproduce this. I have a suspicion that on some people systems
indeed gtk and wxwidgets are causing problems.
Could you try running audacity without GNOME? (e.g. in KDE)
Joost
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:39:57 Géraud Meyer wrote:
> Package: audacity
> Version: 1.3.3-1+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> First I noticed that audacity was crashing when almost any menu item was
> used (notably the Preferences item). Moving the configuration file
> ~/.audacity aside made audacity refuse to start. Simply launching
> audacity outputs this message:
>
> *** glibc detected *** audacity: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer:
> 0x08647ba0 ***
>
> followed by the Backtrace and Memory map that are in the attached file
> audacity.crash.
>
> I suspect there are incompatibilites between the versions of wxwidgets
> and gtk because all the programs using wxwidgets that I use crash a lot
> since the last GNOME upgrade, although I would not say that something in
> the file audacity.crash hints at that cause.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (850, 'testing'), (760, 'stable'), (10,
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-desk2-k7 (PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages audacity depends on:
> ii libasound2 1.0.14a-2 ALSA library
> ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C
> library - runtime li
> ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-3 The GLib library of C routines
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.0-2 The GTK+ graphical user
> interface
> ii libid3tag0 0.15.1b-10 ID3 tag reading library
> from the M
> ii libjack0 0.103.0-6 JACK Audio Connection Kit
> (librari
> ii libmad0 0.15.1b-2.1 MPEG audio decoder library
> ii libogg0 1.1.3-2 Ogg Bitstream Library
> ii libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 Library for reading/writing
> audio
> ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library
> v3 ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio
> Compressi
> ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio
> Compressi
> ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio
> Compressi
> ii libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.1.5 wxBase library (runtime) -
> non-GUI
> ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.1.5 wxWidgets Cross-platform
> C++ GUI t
>
> audacity recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
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