Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

["Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>]

Hi!

On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
> > the following happens:
> >
> > 1.  I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
> >      temporary files.  Please enter an appropriate directory in the
> >      preferences dialog."
> >
> > Click ok, then:
> >
> > 2.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
> >      failed in getPlayDevIndex()."  A backtrace is available but
> >      doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
> >
> > Click continue, then:
> >
> > 3.  An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
> >      failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
> >
> > Continue then segfaults.
> >
> > The googleman doesn't provide any clues.  Ideas?
>
> You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch
> amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric

This is an agressively cut down system w/o gnome, kde, etc.  Just wdm
and fvwm.  I have pulse installed and it is running.  So I am missing
an early dependency somewhere.  I wonder what that could be?

Thanks,
Russell


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