2.1.1 freezing-up, must reboot

[edwinn]

Hi, still going well with Audacity,

Though in the past week I had two freeze-ups of Audacity requiring a reboot of Win-7 to remedy. It probably has to do with running VLC Media Player beforehand, or a file being open or playing in VLC. Not sure of the exact conditions. It could have been from trying to start a second session of Audacity before the first session rendered itself on the screen.

Any hints?


-Ed

[Trebor]

... trying to start a second session of Audacity before the first session rendered itself on the screen

You can have multiple Audacity windows, but not multiple instances of Audacity running at once.

If Audacity(s) , or any other program, causes Windows to freeze,
rather than reboot , go to Windows "Task Manager" , (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) , and end the problematic program ["end process"]...

Select audacity then click on the "End Process" button , if Audacity has frozen computer.

Audacity in Windows 'Task Manager'.png (30.71 KiB) Viewed 329 times

[edwinn]

Audacity in Windows 'Task Manager'.png

Thank you, I do open Task Manager a lot, with Ctrl+Shift+Esc but killing tasks in this case would not remedy.

So that means, you can Ctrl+N for NEW window, but DO NOT double-click the Audacity icon a second time?

-Ed

[Trebor]

So that means, you can Ctrl+N for NEW window, but DO NOT double-click the Audacity icon a second time?

That's correct : don't launch a second instance of Audacity.

[Gale Andrews]

in the past week I had two freeze-ups of Audacity requiring a reboot of Win-7 to remedy

Probably driver or hardware problems, if you mean that Windows then becomes non responsive. See http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#reboot.

Even if you can quit Audacity in Task Manager but Audacity still freezes up until you reboot, it suggests a system problem, perhaps with memory.

So that means, you can Ctrl+N for NEW window, but DO NOT double-click the Audacity icon a second time?

That's correct : don't launch a second instance of Audacity.

You can double-click the Audacity icon but in 2.1.1 all it will do is switch back to the existing Audacity project window.

What it should do is open a new project window (in the same instance of Audacity).


Gale