[Ardour-Users] what to do when ardour seemingly hangs during session loading...
Jörn Nettingsmeier
nettings at stackingdwarves.net
Mon Oct 18 08:56:29 PDT 2010
hi *!
i thought i'd share this little bit of experience here:
recently i did a huge live recording with ardour2 (ten hours recording
time, 56 channels), and when i wanted to start with post i realized i
had forgotten to set the file format to w64 rather than wav, so all
files couldn't seek beyond a certain point.
btw: if this ever happens to you: kill ardour stone dead. do not save. i
have an inkling that it wrote the files back to disk, truncating them at
the 4g limit. luckily, i had a backup. it's kinda hard to reproduce this
bug (would imply writing another 400g to diskspace that i don't have
atm), so i didn't file a ticket, but if anyone can confirm this
behaviour, maybe we should.
after i transformed the files to valid .w64 with eric de castro-lopo's
tool sndfile-salvage (part of the latest libsndfile package), i got
ready to re-create a session from scratch and import the new files.
for some reason, ardour crashed before it had created all peak files.
when i restarted it, the windows opened but were solid gray, ardour did
not refresh or react to any user input. instead, constant disk access
and some 10% cpu usage. if this happens to you: despair not, grab a
coffee. ardour is recreating peak files, not stalling.
if you're the progress bar kind of person, cd to the peakfiles folder
and do 'watch ls -alh"' to convince yourself ardour is still alive :)
best,
jörn
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Jörn Nettingsmeier
Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487
Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft
Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings
http://stackingdwarves.net
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