[Bug] Audacity crashes when opening 'About Audacity'

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tbalint444444
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[Bug] Audacity crashes when opening 'About Audacity'

Post by tbalint444444 » Sat Mar 29, 2014 3:13 pm

This is on Windows 8.1 32-bit with Audacity 2.0.5
This happens when 'About' is selected: Help -> About. This happens only when Hungarian languag is selected in the preferences, if English is selected the about dialog box is displayed without any problems.
Screenshot of the problem:
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And the info from Windows Action Center:
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‎2014.‎03.‎29. 16:01

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A hibát okozó alkalmazás elérési útja: C:Program FilesAudacityaudacity.exe

Probléma-aláírás
Problémaesemény neve: APPCRASH
Alkalmazásnév: audacity.exe
Alkalmazásverzió: 2.0.5.0
Alkalmazás időbélyegzője: 5261b167
Hiba – modul neve: MSVCR90.dll
Hiba – modul verziója: 9.0.30729.8387
Hiba – modul időbélyegzője: 51ea24a5
Kivételkód: c0000005
Kivétel – eltolás: 00057eca
Operációs rendszer verziója: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.72
Területibeállítás-azonosító: 1038
További információk 1: 5861
További információk 2: 5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
További információk 3: a142
További információk 4: a1428fe449e46605baafe0762f59284e

További adatok a problémáról
Gyűjtőazonosító: efc347e0d229a7e29e14881f127162c9 (-380483913)

Please correct this.

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Re: [Bug] Audacity crashes when opening 'About Audacity'

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Mar 29, 2014 5:11 pm

Thanks for the report. The crash also happens on Windows 7 in the current 2.0.6-alpha code but not on Mac OS X or Linux.

The root cause appears to be in some code change made between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4. I opened a bug report http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715 .


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Re: [Bug] Audacity crashes when opening 'About Audacity'

Post by tbalint444444 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:48 pm

Gale Andrews wrote:Thanks for the report. The crash also happens on Windows 7 in the current 2.0.6-alpha code but not on Mac OS X or Linux.

The root cause appears to be in some code change made between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4. I opened a bug report http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715 .


Gale
Thanks for opening the report.
Actually I'm also getting the same crash on Win7 SP1 x86 hun with Audacity 2.0.6 alpha (audacity-win-r13087-2.0.6-alpha-01-apr-14):
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Re: [Bug] Audacity crashes when opening 'About Audacity'

Post by Gale Andrews » Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:55 pm

Thanks, we know. However the crash does not occur in debug builds of 2.0.6-alpha on Windows, which makes it hard for a developer to track it down.

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