[Ardour-Users] Painful importing WAV files with constant crashing/segfaulting

[Ken Restivo]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:29:21AM -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote
> Ken-
> 
>  Its an issue of people having time of course.  That being said I don't see
> anything that jumps out at me in your backtrace.  Glancing through it I can
> only guess that it was thread 1 that crashed, normally when Ardour crashes,
> gdb would tell you which thread crashed, the reason, etc.  Would I expect to
> get this fixed before your next PT session, probably not.
>

Yeah, I kinda figured that. That's why I was looking for ways to go around the problem, like building an *ardour XML file from a script instead of doing the import.

>   I should also note that your backtrace should be attached to the Mantis
> issue about this as well, as it does make it easier to keep track of.

Thanks, will do.

> 
>           Seablade
> 
> And for the record, I highly doubt what you are seeing has anything to do
> with the GUI itself, other than possibly a conflict between an autosave
> running at the same time as importing other files, but even that is a
> complete shot in the dark.

Hmm, that's interesting. Is there a way to turn auto-save off? Or maybe comment it out of the source? If so, I'll try that, and see if it helps.

-ken