Audacity crashes desktop

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#1

Recently upgraded 15.4 to 15.5. Using 15.4 I was running Audacity 2.2.2 to record from the radio. In 15.4 I had packman enabled with switched system package. It wasn’t perfect but it was workable.

When I installed 15.5 I had packman repo disabled and I manually changed each conflict to the 15.5 system file. Now Audacity runs for about 30 sec and then crashes, dropping me back to the login screen (as if I had logged out of my X session). I’m running on KDE & Plasma.

Due to this crash, running from the terminal does not save any info. I did save some output from /var/log/messages but that output includes a lot of extraneous entries to sort thru. Even tho audacity has a log file, it is only for the session and I have not been able to find the logfile anywhere on my system.

I have since used snapshot to rolled back to 15.4.

This is the output in terminal from the startup before a crash. Those entries are the same in 15.4 & 15.5 when starting Audacity.

ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2664:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:601:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:601:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave  <snipped about 100 repetitive lines here to shorten>

Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611

Below are entries from /var/log/messages around the time of a crash

2023-08-14T15:33:50.208061-07:00 linux-T61 kernel: [27837.272400][   T97] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Resetting chip for stopped heartbeat on rcs0
2023-08-14T15:33:50.308308-07:00 linux-T61 kernel: [27837.374205][   T97] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] X[21926] context reset due to GPU hang
2023-08-14T15:33:59.168047-07:00 linux-T61 kernel: [27846.230175][  T108] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Resetting chip for stopped heartbeat on rcs0
2023-08-14T15:33:59.267065-07:00 linux-T61 kernel: [27846.333045][  T108] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] X[21926] context reset due to GPU hang
2023-08-14T15:33:59.923215-07:00 linux-T61 xdg-desktop-portal-kde[23043]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:33:59.923732-07:00 linux-T61 akonadi_notes_agent[22658]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:33:59.924091-07:00 linux-T61 akonadi_archivemail_agent[22616]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:33:59.929871-07:00 linux-T61 org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[23025]: A connection to the bus can't be made
2023-08-14T15:33:59.940698-07:00 linux-T61 korganizer[22397]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.187027-07:00 linux-T61 kmozillahelper[22337]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.500765-07:00 linux-T61 at-spi-bus-launcher[22165]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
2023-08-14T15:34:00.500899-07:00 linux-T61 at-spi-bus-launcher[22165]:       after 201 requests (201 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
2023-08-14T15:34:00.501286-07:00 linux-T61 kaccess[22327]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.501687-07:00 linux-T61 kscreen_backend_launcher[22312]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.502002-07:00 linux-T61 kmozillahelper[22315]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.502318-07:00 linux-T61 org_kde_powerdevil[22185]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.502643-07:00 linux-T61 kleopatra[22347]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.512123-07:00 linux-T61 kalendarac[22311]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.512437-07:00 linux-T61 gmenudbusmenuproxy[22183]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.512739-07:00 linux-T61 konsole[26544]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.513047-07:00 linux-T61 plasmashell[22153]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.513361-07:00 linux-T61 kwin_x11[22110]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.513686-07:00 linux-T61 kactivitymanagerd[22178]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.514004-07:00 linux-T61 ksmserver[22107]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.514301-07:00 linux-T61 kded5[22109]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1)
2023-08-14T15:34:00.546534-07:00 linux-T61 kwalletd5[22003]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.552621-07:00 linux-T61 sddm[1315]: Display server stopped.
2023-08-14T15:34:00.552821-07:00 linux-T61 sddm[1315]: Running display stop script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop"
2023-08-14T15:34:00.552945-07:00 linux-T61 sddm[1315]: Socket server stopping...
2023-08-14T15:34:00.553064-07:00 linux-T61 sddm[1315]: Socket server stopped.
2023-08-14T15:34:00.553187-07:00 linux-T61 sddm[1315]: Removing display ":0" ...
2023-08-14T15:34:00.553540-07:00 linux-T61 akonadi_migration_agent[22653]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
2023-08-14T15:34:00.553690-07:00 linux-T61 sddm[1315]: Adding new display on vt 7 ...
2023-08-14T15:34:00.564557-07:00 linux-T61 systemd[21987]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
2023-08-14T15:34:00.564709-07:00 linux-T61 systemd[21987]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
2023-08-14T15:34:00.565205-07:00 linux-T61 systemd[21987]: plasma-gmenudbusmenuproxy.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
#2

@6520302:

On this machine –

Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150500.55.19-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 29.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS

With this Audacity –

 > audacity --version
Audacity v2.2.2
 >

From this repository –

 > LANG=C zypper repos 19
Alias          : repo-oss
Name           : Haupt-Repository
URI            : http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.5/repo/oss/
Enabled        : Yes
GPG Check      : (r ) Yes
Priority       : 99 (default priority)
Autorefresh    : On
Keep Packages  : Off
Type           : rpm-md
GPG Key URI    : 
Path Prefix    : /
Parent Service : 
Keywords       : [6]
    gpg-pubkey-25db7ae0-645bae34.asc?fpr=F044C2C507A1262B538AAADD8A49EB0325DB7AE0
    gpg-pubkey-29b700a4-62b07e22.asc?fpr=AD485664E901B867051AB15F35A2F86E29B700A4
    gpg-pubkey-39db7c82-5847eb1f.asc?fpr=FEAB502539D846DB2C0961CA70AF9E8139DB7C82
    gpg-pubkey-3dbdc284-53674dd4.asc?fpr=22C07BA534178CD02EFE22AAB88B2FD43DBDC284
    gpg-pubkey-65176565-61a0ee8f.asc?fpr=637B32FF3D83F07A7AE1C40A9C214D4065176565
    pool
Repo Info Path : /etc/zypp/repos.d/repo-oss.repo
MD Cache Path  : /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-oss
 >

I’m not experiencing any major issues with Audacity – “Start → Execute → Quit” trace – no crash …

  • I’m using the default settings for the systemd User Pulse Audio and Pipewire services – systemd information below –
 > audacity
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:566:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:999:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:999:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Cannot connect to server socket err = Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736
Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904
Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171
Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611
 >

systemd Information:

 > systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep -iE 'UNIT FILE|pipew|alsa|pulse'
UNIT FILE                                                             STATE     VENDOR PRESET
pipewire-session-manager.service                                      alias     -
pipewire.service                                                      disabled  disabled
pulseaudio-x11.service                                                static    -
pulseaudio.service                                                    disabled  disabled
pipewire.socket                                                       enabled   enabled
pulseaudio.socket                                                     enabled   enabled
112 unit files listed.
 > 
 > systemctl --user status pipewire.service
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-08-17 09:36:14 CEST; 2h 42min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 3117 (pipewire)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─ 3117 /usr/bin/pipewire

Aug 17 09:36:14 xxx systemd[2780]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Aug 17 09:36:14 xxx pipewire[3117]: mod.rt: Can't find org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop. Is xdg-desktop-portal running?
Aug 17 09:36:14 xxx pipewire[3117]: mod.rt: found session bus but no portal
 > systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-08-17 09:36:25 CEST; 2h 42min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 3812 (pulseaudio)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
             ├─ 3812 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
             └─ 3829 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

Aug 17 09:36:23 xxx systemd[2780]: Starting Sound Service...
Aug 17 09:36:25 xxx systemd[2780]: Started Sound Service.
Aug 17 09:36:50 xxx pulseaudio[3812]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receiv>
 > systemctl --user status pipewire.socket 
● pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Socket
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-08-17 09:36:11 CEST; 2h 42min ago
   Triggers: ● pipewire.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pipewire-0 (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/pipewire.socket

Aug 17 09:36:11 eck001 systemd[2780]: Listening on PipeWire Multimedia System Socket.
 > systemctl --user status pulseaudio.socket 
● pulseaudio.socket - Sound System
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-08-17 09:36:11 CEST; 2h 43min ago
   Triggers: ● pulseaudio.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pulse/native (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/pulseaudio.socket

Aug 17 09:36:11 xxx systemd[2780]: Listening on Sound System.
 >
#3

Thank you for this detailed info. I’ll go through it carefully comparing it to mine.

#4

Possible places to check:

  • The repository URL.
  • Pulse-Audio – Alsa – Jack – Pipewire …
  • ‘~/.audacity-data/’

For the case of the latter, I notice that, I have some rather old – dated 2016 – configuration files in the Audacity data directory – «I need to clean it up … »

#5

@6520302:

Ooops! – And now, I have an Audacity crash …

  • I installed the “pipewire-jack” package which, removed the “libjack0” package and, moved Pipewire packages from the Main openSUSE repository to the Multimedia:Libs repository plus, the additional installation of some libraries from the OSS repository …

The crash looks like this:

 > audacity 
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:566:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:999:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:999:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
double free or corruption (out)
Abgebrochen (Speicherabzug geschrieben)
 >

Plus an Audacity Bug Report in /tmp/ –

 > l /tmp/Audacity_dbgrpt-24105-20230817T184311/
insgesamt 88
drwx------  2 dcu  users  4096 17. Aug 18:43 ./
drwxrwxrwt 37 root root  16384 17. Aug 19:01 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 dcu  users  1680 17. Aug 18:43 audacity.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 dcu  users 30225 17. Aug 18:43 Audacity.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 dcu  users     0 17. Aug 18:43 log.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 dcu  users 27423 17. Aug 18:43 pluginregistry.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 dcu  users    26 17. Aug 18:43 pluginsettings.cfg
 >
#6

Thanks for this. I don’t have debug selected and I see the log file is part of that directory although yours shows 0 bytes.

The files I have in .audacity-data & tmp are quite old, I was thinking about deleting them (plus directories) and hoping new ones would be created. Also am unaware of pipewire. I haven’t had a chance to check my system yet.

I have checked the repo URL’s but I should check again.

#7

I have the same applicable info as in your post.
One difference, below (double ** in two lines) . I’m still looking for the applicable config file.
All else is the same.

re: systemd information

systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-08-17 19:28:53 PDT; 3h 11min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 1988 (pulseaudio)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
             ├─ 1988 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
             └─ 2077 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

Aug 17 19:28:35 xxx systemd[1851]: Starting Sound Service...
Aug 17 19:28:52 xxx pulseaudio[1988]: **module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine!**
Aug 17 19:28:52 xxx pulseaudio[1988]: **We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration.**
Aug 17 19:28:53 xxx systemd[1851]: Started Sound Service.

I have more to check but I’ve been short on spare time.
Thanks

#8

@6520302:

A note of what I had to remove and re-install to get Audacity running again:

2023-08-17 19:23:13|command|root@xxx|'/usr/bin/ruby.ruby2.5' '--encoding=utf-8' '/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2start' 'sw_single' 'qt' '-name' 'YaST2' '-icon' 'yast'|
2023-08-17 19:23:13|remove |jack-dbus|1.9.22-lp155.136.2|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:13|remove |libffado2|2.4.3-bp155.2.17|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:13|remove |liblc3-1|1.0.4-lp155.13.1|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:14|remove |libmysofa1|1.3.1-bp155.1.7|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:14|remove |pipewire-jack|0.3.77-lp155.150.1|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:14|remove |libxml++-3_0-1|3.2.0-1.25|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:14|remove |libiec61883-0|1.2.0-1.27|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:15|remove |libconfig++11|1.7-2.12|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:15|install|libjack0|1.9.12-150000.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|repo-oss|0fc58a182a81da83bd86b71962a5b8f2c7d260e1bee76f97ba4b791f012f9fcd|
2023-08-17 19:23:15|install|pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|repo-sle-update|4b5e4bc92d572364b6d7061e52db04efec626676c53acd64f8ce6fdb8e52cf0b|
2023-08-17 19:23:15|install|libpipewire-0_3-0|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|repo-sle-update|48fd35cae7d6deabe7cdf6957433b12350c00ad4427a48982c21494ef2454fb3|
2023-08-17 19:23:15|install|pipewire-spa-tools|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|repo-sle-update|aa9223398a02b6a74181aae68a6d8c995e67483b798a385d4c37b9295a1d09c2|
2023-08-17 19:23:16|install|pipewire-modules-0_3|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|repo-sle-update|88d0d9c1b7a34b3e0c770fc797739bb68f96e182bd247a091649774a988e2774|
2023-08-17 19:23:16|install|pipewire-tools|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|repo-sle-update|3094f955177319e98677db22c0c82fe789cdcaf9b62c86f1a7e544e14ed551f1|
2023-08-17 19:23:16|install|pipewire|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|repo-sle-update|46fbcc90f6912810ca53864c7a7c0768b7a9c91d7ad5ea0186ac169c93fcf899|
# 2023-08-17 19:23:16 pipewire-libjack-0_3-0.3.64-150500.3.3.1.x86_64 removed ok
# Additional rpm output:
# update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/bin/pw-jack-0.3 (part of link group pw-jack) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
# 
2023-08-17 19:23:16|remove |pipewire-libjack-0_3|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|x86_64|root@xxx|
2023-08-17 19:23:16|install|pipewire-lang|0.3.64-150500.3.3.1|noarch|root@xxx|repo-sle-update|216dd7fcb075743ab7c30bbf633b6bedc410e4abcc16f81b0d24443910465a7a|
#9

I’m glad you have yours working. My system does not have any of the removed files selected and all of the installed files you list are already installed.

I do have an older computer that I have updated to 15.5 and audacity does work in the computer so I’m at a loss why it not only does not work on my Thinkpad but it crashes the desktop when it runs, logging me out and presenting me with the login screen.

I’m currently testing ocenaudio on that computer to see if it works. I am considering removing audacity and deleting the config files and reinstalling it just to see if it behaves better. The only thing different between a working audacity on 15.4 and a broken one on 15.5 is that on 15.4 I had packman repo enabled in 15.4 w/ switch system packages. On 15.5 I have not enabled packman.

#10

Of course you should do this.

Also try to create a new user who will start audacity.

Audacity is crash-prone. When working on a big project, it usually crashes, often when beginning playing from the pointer’s position, or when changing the pointer’s position, or when making a selection.

Audacity used to crash even before some changes in ownership of the project or users’ default privacy settings were made.

#11

Thanks for the new user suggestion. It seems to be a common suggestion and I have not done that. I used Audacity w/ Packman files to record a one hr program from the radio while using fully updated 15.4. Saved the mp3 and then upgraded to 15.5, reverting to system files for the upgrade. Audacity crashes within 30 sec of operation. It’s difficult for me to see how a new user would make a difference but I will give it a shot.

I now have Audacity running on an older ‘backup’ computer running 15.5. No issues with that. When I get enough free time I plan on doing a file by file comparison between the two. Since the hardware is different I’m not certain that the comparison will be valid.

#12

Comparing file by file is very laborious. You will only scratch the surface.

KDE system monitor (look for RAM usage there) can be used to check memory leaks.

There is a chance that hardware is damaged. Suspects are the disk, motherboard’s disk controller, RAM. Some tools for checking this are the dmesg command, files in /var/log/, smartctl -a command, badblocks command, computer check tools built in pre-boot environment (BIOS), memtest utility.

You might have encountered a case of bit rot or bit flip. This can happen if the hardware is too old or if there was power outage.

As far as I know, in Linux there is no equivalent of Windows’s sfc command.

#13

Thanks for those suggestions. Some of them I’ve done but not all.

The hardware is about 15 yrs old so it is getting old. However, another computer it runs on is even older but has different hardware. Also Ocenaudio works fine and does everything I need but I prefer the interface of Audacity because it is more familiar to me.