[Ardour-Users] Fwd: Ardour 6.9 crashes when opening a blank template.

Mon Jul 18 09:18:02 PDT 2022

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Subject: 	Ardour 6.9 crashes when opening a blank template.
Date: 	Sat, 16 Jul 2022 16:33:52 -0400
From: 	Robert Kugler <bob at bobkugler.com>
To: 	ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
CC: 	bob at bobkugler.com

Hello,

Sorry if this is a nuisance question, but I cannot fix the issue, and I 
dont want to reinstall

  because everything was working so well, and i saw that one person who 
removed things ended up by killing Gnome.

I have the paid verson of Ardour 6,9, running on Ubuntu  20.04.4 LTS.  
Everything was working very well.

I opened a blank template project to do some editing, and ardour 
immediately crashed (righ after I selected "new session -> empty template").

This is the first time it happened, so I rebooted the computer and tried 
again: same result. I tried it twice more with the same result.

I also tried starting Ardour in safe mode with no plugins; same crash.

I have recently installed pipewire (but Ardour was working fine with 
pipewire).

BTW, Ardour will open fine and play files with an existing project, and 
only crashes on a blank project.

There was a Cannonical update before Ardour started crashing, so i 
rolled the update back by restoring an earlier dated timeshift backup.

Sam crash problem.

I disabled "memory unlimited" in /etc/security/limits.conf, and that had 
no effect on the crashing.

I started Ardour6 with gdb, and got the following messages:

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kugler at rodan:/etc/security/limits.d$ Ardour6 --gdb
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Reading symbols from /opt/Ardour-6.9.0/bin/ardour-6.9.0...
(No debugging symbols found in /opt/Ardour-6.9.0/bin/ardour-6.9.0)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /opt/Ardour-6.9.0/bin/ardour-6.9.0
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Ardour6.9.0 (built using 6.9 and GCC version 6.3.0 20170516)
Ardour: [INFO]: Your system is configured to limit Ardour to 1048576 
open files
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading system configuration file 
/opt/Ardour-6.9.0/etc/system_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading user configuration file 
/home/kugler/.config/ardour6/config
[New Thread 0x7fffea0ff700 (LWP 11226)]
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU vendor: AuthenticAMD
Ardour: [INFO]: AVX-capable processor
Ardour: [INFO]: AVX with FMA capable processor
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU brand: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Ardour: [INFO]: Using AVX and FMA optimized routines
Ardour: [WARNING]: Could not set CPU DMA latency to 1 usec (Permission 
denied)
[New Thread 0x7fffe98fe700 (LWP 11227)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe90fd700 (LWP 11228)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe88fc700 (LWP 11229)]
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading plugin meta data file 
/opt/Ardour-6.9.0/share/plugin_metadata/plugin_tags
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading plugin statistics file 
/home/kugler/.config/ardour6/plugin_metadata/plugin_stats
[New Thread 0x7fffdb435700 (LWP 11230)]
[Thread 0x7fffdb435700 (LWP 11230) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffdb435700 (LWP 11231)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd89bd700 (LWP 11232)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcef90700 (LWP 11233)]
Cannot xinstall SIGPIPE error handler
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading default ui configuration file 
/opt/Ardour-6.9.0/etc/default_ui_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading user ui configuration file 
/home/kugler/.config/ardour6/ui_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading 452 MIDI patches from 
/opt/Ardour-6.9.0/share/patchfiles
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading color file 
/opt/Ardour-6.9.0/share/themes/dark-ardour.colors
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading ui configuration file 
/opt/Ardour-6.9.0/etc/clearlooks.rc
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading bindings from /opt/Ardour-6.9.0/etc/ardour.keys
Loading ui configuration file /opt/Ardour-6.9.0/etc/clearlooks.rc
[New Thread 0x7fffce3ff700 (LWP 11234)]
[New Thread 0x7fffce37e700 (LWP 11235)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcdac0700 (LWP 11236)]

Thread 12 "ArdourGUI" received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffcdac0700 (LWP 11236)]
0x00007fffee48146e in epoll_wait (epfd=14, events=0x7fffcdabf830,
     maxevents=32, timeout=-1) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/epoll_wait.c:30
30    ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/epoll_wait.c: No such file or directory.

*******************************************************************

Typing backtrace command:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007fffee48146e in epoll_wait (epfd=14, events=0x7fffcdabf830,
     maxevents=32, timeout=-1) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/epoll_wait.c:30
#1  0x00007fffcef972cb in ?? ()
    from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/spa-0.2/support/libspa-support.so
#2  0x00007fffcefa3c93 in ?? ()
    from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/spa-0.2/support/libspa-support.so
#3  0x00007fffcf026b4c in ?? () from 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so.0
#4  0x00007ffff088a609 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>)
     at pthread_create.c:477
#5  0x00007fffee481133 in clone ()
     at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:95
(gdb) q
A debugging session is active.

     Inferior 1 [process 11222] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y

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Can anyone see the issue here?....It seems that it is a pipewire issue, 
but I am not sure.....

Thanks for any help....

Bob

bob at bobkugler.com
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