[Ardour-Dev] config wizard [was : Re: video timeline patch testing]

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 07/18/2010 03:02 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
> On 07/17/2010 01:43 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>    
>> On 07/17/2010 09:35 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>      
>>> On 07/17/2010 09:14 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>        
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Shirkey
>>>>> <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>   wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With the latest a3 I am finding that everytime I start I am being
>>>>>> asked to
>>>>>> go through the wizard process.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am also not presented with a list of previous sessions to work from.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a known issue?
>>>>>>              
>>>>> no. it should write a file called .a3 into ~/.config/ardour3 and won't
>>>>> enter the wizard after that
>>>>>            
>>>>
>>>> I see the file in the correct location but there is nothing in it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Hmm, I was unable to close a session correctly but killing it with
>>> ctrl+c has resulted in a .a3 file being written at last.
>>>
>>> I can now see the option to choose an existing session. I am seeing
>>> ardour stall while loading the other sessions which I have just
>>> created so I am only working with new ones each time now. I have not
>>> tested with older sessions so these results are only from sessions
>>> created in the past 24 hours.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> A bit more usability testing.
>>
>>
>> 1: open session, a3 hang, force close session = no config saved. empty
>> .a3 file
>> 2: open session, do something, close, hang = as above
>> 3: open session do something force close (ctrl+c) = .a3 file saved
>> correctly
>> 4: open session, attempt to load existing session = hang
>> 5: open session, attempt to create new session with same name as old
>> session, dialog asking to load exisiting session = hang
>>
>>
>> Not sure if you are aware of these items but posted here for your
>> reference.
>>      
> I can not reproduce any of these.
>
> Is this the videotimline branch?

Yes.


> Please try to reproduce it with vanilla
> ardour3.
>
> I've also noticed that if header-files are changed ./waf not always
> re-compiles all necessary objects. I had a couple of unexplainable
> segfaults and also hangs which went away after a ./waf clean&&  ./waf
>
>    

Done that, will let you know if it continues.

I'm seeing other strange stuff now.

After the clean and build I could open ardour and get the ui up. After 
adding opening a video and choosing the transcode option for testing 
purposes nothing seemed to happen. So I closed ardour with file->close  
menuitem and then had to ctrl+c to get it to actually quit.

Now when I try to start a new session I get the setup wizard for the 
audio device settings and session name ok but when I apply the settings 
to load the ui it stalls at the following line in the terminal:

MIDI port buffers = 32716
MIDI UI running


Basically I am not doing anything particularly challenging at this point 
but when ardour crashes for me I am unable to get it to run again.

I have rebooted, tried with a different audio card and still the same issue.




-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd