Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 06/13/2015 01:36 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:31 -0700, 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.
>
> Check
>
> grep -i Temp  ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg
>
> And then check the permissions on that directory.

And, again, is your user a member of the "audio" group in /etc/group? 
Without permissions, you get no audio. This doesn't depend on any window 
manager, it is system. Ric



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