[Crashes] 2.0.6 on OS/X 10.10.0

[Baylink]

Gale suggested I post in a new thread the crash reports from some crashes I've had using that combination, which I didn't realize was not actually supported -- I don't recall seeing a warning to that effect, which someone might want to take steps about (even if those steps are merely saying "look, doofus: the warning is right *there*".

A common thread in these crashes is that since it leaves the lockfile in the root of the temporary folder (in my case, not the boot folder, and one which is VFAT, rather than HFS+J, though I don't think that's necessarily pertinent), when it restarts, the application-modal spashscreen blocks your access to the necessary dialog to delete said lockfile, and the only solution is to Force Quit Audacity, and remove the lockfile manually, after which all is well. I infer that might be simply a fix of swapping a couple lines of code, but I have not married the code base, so of course I might be being optimistic.

[Baylink]

I find that "the extension .diag is not allowed".

Is there a standard protocol for uploading these?

[steve]

I find that "the extension .diag is not allowed".

Is there a standard protocol for uploading these?

It's a text file, right?
If so, change the file extension to .txt

[Gale Andrews]

Gale suggested I post in a new thread the crash reports from some crashes I've had using that combination, which I didn't realize was not actually supported -- I don't recall seeing a warning to that effect, which someone might want to take steps about (even if those steps are merely saying "look, doofus: the warning is right *there*".

If you download Audacity from http://audacityteam.org/download/ it says clearly that the OS X support is 10.4 to 10.9.x.

If you look in the Release Notes 2.0.6 - Audacity Wiki it says at the top that 2.0.6 does not support Yosemite.


Gale

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Audacity_2015-01-06-182204_Jays-MacBook-Pro.wakeups_resource.txt

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Well, I guess that's sensible, yes.

[Baylink]

Here are a few of the reports.

[Baylink]

Four more

[Baylink]

The Final Four<tm>

[Gale Andrews]

A common thread in these crashes is that since it leaves the lockfile in the root of the temporary folder (in my case, not the boot folder, and one which is VFAT, rather than HFS+J, though I don't think that's necessarily pertinent), when it restarts, the application-modal spashscreen blocks your access to the necessary dialog to delete said lockfile, and the only solution is to Force Quit Audacity, and remove the lockfile manually, after which all is well.

After 2.1.0 we're intending to move the lockfile to the directory the audacity.cfg settings file is in.

The lockfile should not be left behind, and the way Audacity handles that (not letting you access Preferences as it suggests) is a bug - but it is a bug generally on at least OS X and Linux.

Where is your temp file exactly - have you changed its location?

Are there any crashes, hangs or force quits other than that? From the file names and looking at two of your files, those are not crash reports but hangs.


Gale

[Baylink]

That was my whole collection; my temp folder is in the root of a volume on its own partition