Audacity Forum

I uninstalled jack* and then reinstalled Audacity with no success. It still takes ages to start. I have lots of free system resources, btw, so I'm ruling out low cpu and memory as a possible cause. top - 22:13:46 up 7 min, 3 users, load average: 1,47, 1,21, 0,63 Tasks: 288 total, 1 running, 212 slee...

Hi Neil, thank you for your response! I tried starting from terminal again and it froze for some time, as I posted before, but after fifteen minutes or so, Audacity finished starting up and sent these messages on my terminal: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib...

Hello! All of a sudden, Audacity began to freeze right on the starting logo splash in my Xubuntu machine. All I get is the Audacity logo at the middle of the screen, on top of everything else, and no amount of "sudo kill -9 <<audacity pid>>" can make it go away. My only solution to free screen space...