I am experiencing the same problem with the latest audacity, it opens and creates an error log directory in /tmp
from the log file
19:03:14: Audacity 3.0.4-alpha-20210827
19:03:14: Warning: Critical Nyquist files could not be found. Nyquist effects will not work.
from
.audacity-data/lastlog.txt
13:23:16: Audacity 3.0.2
13:23:16: Retrieving FFmpeg library version numbers:
13:23:16: AVCodec version 0x3a8664 - 58.134.100 (built against 0x3a8664 - 58.134.100)
13:23:16: AVFormat version 0x3a4c64 - 58.76.100 (built against 0x3a4c64 - 58.76.100)
13:23:16: AVUtil version 0x384664 - 56.70.100 (built against 0x384664 - 56.70.100)
13:23:17: File name is /home/gerry/Music/editted black.wav
13:23:17: Mime type is *
13:23:17: Opening with libsndfile
13:23:17: Open(/home/gerry/Music/editted black.wav) succeeded
so as you can see nothing useful there
running
journalctl -b | grep -i audacity
gives
Oct 11 18:10:04 Unknown-b4-2e-99-e9-04-99 systemd[1483]: Started **Audacity** - Sound Editor.