I have problems with Audacity 3.7.3 Linux in Ubuntu Studio 22.04.
Sometimes it works perfectly, at other times not at all.
I have used previous versions, and they have had the same problem.
Problem 1: It will not start.
I try to open the app and it shows the splash screen logo, and nothing happens. If I go to my System Monitor, it shows that Audacity is running and using lots of RAM (1.1 GB), but nothing happens. If I click the splash logo, it disappears. I have to close it from the System Monitor. I have tried rebooting, and sometimes Audacity will then work.
Problem 2: It crashes/freezes.
When it does actually work, it might then freeze when trying to close a project.
Problem 3: No sound at all.
After rebooting yet again to try to resolve the previous issues, it worked, but there was no sound when playing audio. Audio works okay in other applications.
Any ideas what is going on?
When it does not start, I tried from CLI with the Appimage file and got the following:
$ ./audacity-linux-3.7.3-x64-20.04.AppImage
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatk-1.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo-gobject.so.2
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgthread-2.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjack.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0
findlib: libportaudio.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/media/Audio/Audacity/audacity-linux-3.7.3-x64-20.04.AppImage: Using fallback for library ‘libportaudio.so’
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librsvg-2.so.2
/tmp/.mount_audacipNIOLO/bin/audacity: /tmp/.mount_audacipNIOLO/lib/libselinux.so.1: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_audacipNIOLO/bin/audacity: /tmp/.mount_audacipNIOLO/lib/libselinux.so.1: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmount.so.1)
I have also installed the Flatpak version, and run from the CLI:
$ flatpak run org.audacityteam.Audacity
There is no output in the CLI. The splash logo appears, but that’s all.