Audacity GTK startup error

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MouseKey
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Audacity GTK startup error

Post by MouseKey » Tue Sep 06, 2016 4:43 pm

OS: Ubuntu Studio 16.04.1 Xenial Xerus LTS
Audacity: 2.1.2, distro release

Audacity was working fine, then it crashed while recording audio and now when I try to start it up, the Terminal returns: (Audacity:18275): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()

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Re: Audacity GTK startup error

Post by Gale Andrews » Wed Sep 07, 2016 2:04 pm

MouseKey wrote:OS: Ubuntu Studio 16.04.1 Xenial Xerus LTS
Audacity: 2.1.2, distro release

Audacity was working fine, then it crashed while recording audio and now when I try to start it up, the Terminal returns: (Audacity:18275): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()
I don't think that warning prevents Audacity launching.

Force quit Audacity in System Monitor if necessary, then try deleting the folder ~/.audacity-data/.

If a Debug Report appeared when Audacity crashed, could you please attach the ZIP file that it offered to create.


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Re: Audacity GTK startup error

Post by ericb7799 » Wed Sep 07, 2016 5:00 pm

same error I get when launched with sudo

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