Audacity suddenly won't open

[briandc]

Reinstalling what? What version of Audacity are you running now and where exactly did you obtain it?

What does "About This Computer" say about your operating system?

My suggestion was that you install the actual KXStudio distribution based on Ubuntu 14.04 (which I assume will give you an older version of Audacity), or uninstall KXStudio and see if Audacity runs after rebooting the machine. If in doubt, ask KXStudio for help, given the problem started with them.


Gale

What I meant was, I tried reinstalling the Audacity package in the repositories, but it changed nothing. I also tried removing all the KXStudio repositories and rebooting and then reinstalling Audacity again, but I still get the same crash errors.

My version of Audacity is 2.1.2-1

Downgrading to 14.04 is not really the road I want to go down. Isn't there a way to fix this bug?

Maybe I should try installing a previous version, from source? (I don't see any previous versions available in the repositories.)

brian

[Gale Andrews]

Audacity is not responsible for packages in the Ubuntu repositories, only for our source code.

Ask KXStudio to be sure you have fully uninstalled their products. The problem started when you used their products, after all.

Try turning off all other audio applications before launching Audacity. See this advice about the Audio Group in Ubuntu, in case KXStudio changed something.

I build Audacity (HEAD, latest development code) on Ubuntu 16.04 and Audacity launches properly.

If there are problems with the Audacity version in the Ubuntu repositories, please report such issue to Ubuntu.


Gale

[briandc]

I decided to switch to AntiX, partly because I really need Audacity, partly to get a bit more speed.
As such, I added the KXStudio repositories and the current version I have of Audacity is 2.0.6. It works fine, except that the input/output devices don't include the dropdown windows, so I have to go into preferences and select the input source there.
Not a big deal, I'm just happy to have Audacity working again!


brian

[Gale Andrews]

I decided to switch to AntiX, partly because I really need Audacity, partly to get a bit more speed.
As such, I added the KXStudio repositories and the current version I have of Audacity is 2.0.6. It works fine, except that the input/output devices don't include the dropdown windows, so I have to go into preferences and select the input source there.

If you look at Help > About Audacity... , Build Information tab, is it built with wxWidgets 2.8.x or 3.x.x? If with 3.x.x, you may receive more problems, because Audacity 2.0.6 is not designed to be built with wx3.x.x.


Gale

[briandc]

I decided to switch to AntiX, partly because I really need Audacity, partly to get a bit more speed.
As such, I added the KXStudio repositories and the current version I have of Audacity is 2.0.6. It works fine, except that the input/output devices don't include the dropdown windows, so I have to go into preferences and select the input source there.

If you look at Help > About Audacity... , Build Information tab, is it built with wxWidgets 2.8.x or 3.x.x? If with 3.x.x, you may receive more problems, because Audacity 2.0.6 is not designed to be built with wx3.x.x.


Gale

It's built with 2.0.6-2

Is this a stable version? If so, I'm happy with using it as is.


brian

[Gale Andrews]

It's built with 2.0.6-2

Is this a stable version? If so, I'm happy with using it as is.

2.0.6-2 is the internal Audacity version number.

As I said, you can check the wxWidgets version at Help > About Audacity..., then click the "Build Information" tab. The wxWidgets version is listed under "Core Libraries".

Gale

[briandc]

It's built with 2.0.6-2

Is this a stable version? If so, I'm happy with using it as is.

2.0.6-2 is the internal Audacity version number.

As I said, you can check the wxWidgets version at Help > About Audacity..., then click the "Build Information" tab. The wxWidgets version is listed under "Core Libraries".

Gale

Found it! :

wxWidgets 3.0.2


I have these apps available in the AntiX repositories; perhaps I need to install one of these? :

wxsqlite3-3.0-dbg - Debugging symbols for wxSQLite3 3.0
wxsqlite3-doc - Documentation files for wxSQLite3
libwxsvg-dbg - Debugging symbols for wxSVG
libwxsvg-dev - Development files for wxSVG
libwxsvg2 - SVG library for the wxWidgets toolkit
libwxbase3.0-0 - wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets toolkit
libwxbase3.0-0-dbg - debugging symbols for the wxBase library
libwxbase3.0-dev - wxBase library (development) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets toolkit
libwxgtk-media3.0-0 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ media library runtime)
libwxgtk-media3.0-0-dbg - debugging symbols for the wxGTK media library
libwxgtk-media3.0-dev - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ media library development)
libwxgtk-webview3.0-0 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (webview library runtime)
libwxgtk-webview3.0-0-dbg - debugging symbols for the wxGTK webview library
libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (webview library development)
libwxgtk3.0-0 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime)
libwxgtk3.0-0-dbg - debugging symbols for the wxGTK GUI toolkit library
libwxgtk3.0-dev - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ development)
wx-common - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (common support files)
wx3.0-examples - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (examples)
wx3.0-headers - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (header files)
wx3.0-i18n - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (i18n support)
wx2.8-i18n - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (i18n support)
wx2.8-doc - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (documentation)
wx2.8-examples - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (examples)
libwxbase2.8-0 - wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets toolkit
libwxbase2.8-dev - wxBase library (development) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets toolkit
libwxbase2.8-dbg - wxBase library (debug) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets toolkit
libwxgtk2.8-0 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime)
libwxgtk2.8-dev - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ development)
libwxgtk2.8-dbg - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ debugging)
python-wxgtk2.8 - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython binding)
python-wxgtk2.8-dbg - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython binding, debug version)
wx2.8-headers - wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (header files)




brian

[Gale Andrews]

It's built with 2.0.6-2

Is this a stable version? If so, I'm happy with using it as is.

2.0.6-2 is the internal Audacity version number.

As I said, you can check the wxWidgets version at Help > About Audacity..., then click the "Build Information" tab. The wxWidgets version is listed under "Core Libraries".

Gale

Found it! :

wxWidgets 3.0.2

So there will be many bugs and possible crashes: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Incor ... ts_Version.

It was Canonical's decision to build Audacity 2.0.6 with a version of wxWidgets it does not support.

The problems you had with Audacity 2.1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 were I think some kind of packaging/library problem which was not Audacity's fault.

If the problems with 2.0.6 worry you then you could build 2.0.6 or 2.1.2 yourself from source code. Personally I would build and install wxWidgets 2.8.12 (if you want Audacity 2.0.6) or wxWidgets 3.0.2 (if you want Audacity 2.1.2) then build Audacity against that local build of wxWidgets, rather than try to build 2.1.2 against system wxWidgets 3.0.2 which is your other alternative.


Gale