Audacity Forum

Solved in the sense that it is no longer a problem for me. I had forgotten to install the 'pulseaudio-alsa' package in Arch so basically Audacity was just using straight Alsa (instead of Alsa through Pulseaudio) and trying to grab the card directly. In installing this and then setting the output and...

Er forgot to mention: I didn't see anything on the arch bugtracker. I believe I found something of further significance though right before the core dump: Jan 24 07:57:28 t3600 pulseaudio[852]: E: [alsa-sink-ALC269VB Analog] alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy Jan ...

steve, thanks for the replies. I should be able to handle building from source (also a former Gentoo user ; ) ). I'll probably go ahead and build 2.3.0 and try to gather more useful information. Also I have the thought that I might try also disabling the software buffering for the live monitoring ju...

When recording into a project that has not yet been saved, the audio data is written to Audacity's Temp folder. Check where the Temp folder is located (look in "Edit menu > Preferences > Directories") and check the amount of space available in that location. /var/tmp/audacity-david Free Space: 162....

Audacity 2.2.2 Arch Linux (from repo) Linux 4.20.0-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Audacity is randomly dumping core for me when I am recording for a long time. I have plenty of disk space (over 100GB free) and plenty of ram (64GB). I am recording while monitoring so have the software buffering on. Here...