Audacity crashes during spectrum building

[fiuuuu]

I am running Audacity 2.0.5 (downloaded from repositories) on Linux Mint 17.2 (Linux version 3.16.0-38-generic ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #52~14.04.1-Ubuntu)

I have just tried to import Raw Data and look at its spectrum but Audacity crashed with a segmentation fault. No error messages are generated by Audacity.
How to reproduce:

1. Launch Audacity;
2. File → Import → Raw Data…;
3. Choose the attached file “BUG CAUSING VERY DANGEROUS NEVER LOOK AT THE SPECTRUM BLYAD”;
4. Choose the following options:
   • Encoding: 64 bit float;
   • Byte order: Big-endian;
   • Channels: 1 Channel;
   • Start offset: 0 bytes;
   • Amount to import: 100 %;
   • Sample rate: 44100 Hz;
5. Try to look at the spectrogram.
6. ???
7. Segmentation fault!

You can see the output in the attached files.

[steve]

I'm using Audacity 2.1.2 rc1 on Debian stable with XFCE desktop.
No segmentation fault, no crash, but the imported file is garbage with those settings.

Import with the detected settings:

• Encoding: 64 bit float;
• Byte order: Little-endian;
• Channels: 2 Channels (stereo);
• Start offset: 0 bytes;
• Amount to import: 100 %;
• Sample rate: 44100 Hz;

and I get a stereo track with an 880 Hz sine wave.

[Gale Andrews]

We can't fix any bugs in obsolete versions of Audacity. You could uninstall 2.0.5 and try the "Ubuntu Handbook" 2.1.1 PPA from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/ ... u/audacity.

Gale