Bug#429996: audacity: consumes excessive swap when directory for temporary files does not exist and is on a filesystem almost out of free space

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Package: audacity
Version: 1.3.3-1
Severity: normal


When loading an MP2 file about 80 MiB in size, audacity consumed over a 
gigabyte of swap on this machine with 256 MiB RAM installed before 
locking things up. The temporary files directory was set to a 
non-existent directory on a filesystem with only about 12 MiB disk space 
free.

Shouldn't audacity first check that the temporary files directory 
exists and is writable, then warn about the amount of free space before 
a project is loaded or file is imported?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc5 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  libasound2              1.0.14a-1        ALSA library
ii  libc6                   2.5-11           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-3.4       XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac++5              1.1.2-6          Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac7                1.1.2-6          Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.12.12-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.10.13-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libid3tag0              0.15.1b-10       ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjack0                0.103.0-5        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             1.0.17-2         Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070609-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a             1.1.2.dfsg-1.2   The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2           1.1.2.dfsg-1.2   The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3          1.1.2.dfsg-1.2   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.

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