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The Ubuntu handbook 2.1.1 PPA will be more stable generally than the Ubuntu packaged version of Audacity, but it will still be prone to freeze using PulseAudio devices if you hold down play or record, or click play, pause or stop too quickly in succession. It is possible you actually encountered that bug, which is still open. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#pulse for workarounds.drjoeross wrote:I love using Audacity and even with the daily crashes found it excellent. If this resolves the issue it will be SPECTACULAR!
Gale, you are unfortunately correct. It seems a little better with the updated ppa but it still is unstable and freezes. Then on restart, I get a message Like " there are 140 orphan blocks doing no harm and I could leave them and just move on." Most of the time my recordings seem ok but it is a bit nerve racking. Kind of like being shot at by an invisible sniper just now and then..... you are always waiting to be get hurt. Too bad it has not been resolved. Audacity is such a great program otherwise.Gale Andrews wrote:The Ubuntu handbook 2.1.1 PPA will be more stable generally than the Ubuntu packaged version of Audacity, but it will still be prone to freeze using PulseAudio devices if you hold down play or record, or click play, pause or stop too quickly in succession. It is possible you actually encountered that bug, which is still open. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#pulse for workarounds.drjoeross wrote:I love using Audacity and even with the daily crashes found it excellent. If this resolves the issue it will be SPECTACULAR!
Gale
I tried the recommended "work around" and got a message in terminal that did not look inspiring (not that I understand it). Failed, Refused and Unknown are not positive:Gale Andrews wrote:The Ubuntu handbook 2.1.1 PPA will be more stable generally than the Ubuntu packaged version of Audacity, but it will still be prone to freeze using PulseAudio devices if you hold down play or record, or click play, pause or stop too quickly in succession. It is possible you actually encountered that bug, which is still open. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#pulse for workarounds.drjoeross wrote:I love using Audacity and even with the daily crashes found it excellent. If this resolves the issue it will be SPECTACULAR!
Gale
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[email protected]:~$ env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:618:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
In most cases those orphan files are perfectly normal when recovering after a crash - the orphans are files that were being kept for Audacity undo/redo.drjoeross wrote:Gale, you are unfortunately correct. It seems a little better with the updated ppa but it still is unstable and freezes. Then on restart, I get a message Like " there are 140 orphan blocks doing no harm and I could leave them and just move on." Most of the time my recordings seem ok but it is a bit nerve racking.Gale Andrews wrote:The Ubuntu handbook 2.1.1 PPA will be more stable generally than the Ubuntu packaged version of Audacity, but it will still be prone to freeze using PulseAudio devices if you hold down play or record, or click play, pause or stop too quickly in succession. It is possible you actually encountered that bug, which is still open. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#pulse for workarounds.drjoeross wrote:I love using Audacity and even with the daily crashes found it excellent. If this resolves the issue it will be SPECTACULAR!
Gale
There is nothing bad there - those messages are "normal".drjoeross wrote:I tried the recommended "work around" and got a message in terminal that did not look inspiring (not that I understand it). Failed, Refused and Unknown are not positive:
Thanks!Gale Andrews wrote:There is nothing bad there - those messages are "normal".drjoeross wrote:I tried the recommended "work around" and got a message in terminal that did not look inspiring (not that I understand it). Failed, Refused and Unknown are not positive:
If you get underruns noted in the terminal when you play audio or if playback does not start immediately, try a higher PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC value.
Gale
drjoeross wrote:I tried the recommended "work around" and got a message in terminal that did not look inspiring (not that I understand it). Failed, Refused and Unknown are not positive:Gale Andrews wrote:The Ubuntu handbook 2.1.1 PPA will be more stable generally than the Ubuntu packaged version of Audacity, but it will still be prone to freeze using PulseAudio devices if you hold down play or record, or click play, pause or stop too quickly in succession. It is possible you actually encountered that bug, which is still open. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linux_Issues#pulse for workarounds.drjoeross wrote:I love using Audacity and even with the daily crashes found it excellent. If this resolves the issue it will be SPECTACULAR!
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[email protected]:~$ env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 audacity ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:618:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611 Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611 Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611 Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611