[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.
> 
>   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.
> 
>           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.


I ran it with autosave off, and it still exploded on me during imports, like a trick cigar.

So far, absolutely nothing seems to help.

I'd still love a way to do this whole import business via a command-line script to build an *ardour XML file manually and populate the interchange/audiofiles directory, bypassing Ardour's UI and not-likely-ever-to-be-fixed buggy import code completely. The next session will be in a week or two.

-ken