Bug 16644 – audacity-1.1.1-r1 crashes on start

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vlad Berditchevskiy 2003-03-01 20:41:52 UTC]

The following message is printed and Audacity exits with error code 1.

Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  serial 6466 error_code 2 request_code 45 minor_code 0

I used Audacity some time ago and did not encounter this problem, but suddenly
Audacity ceased to work (it's possible that some Gnome/GTK libs have been
upgraded since then). I tried to remerge both wxGTK and Audacity, tried 2 wxGTK
versions (2.2.9 and 2.4), but nothing helped.

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Portage 2.0.47-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-xfs-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses
nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline
tetex svga tcltk java X sdl gpm tcpd libwww ssl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk
motif opengl cdr -gtk2 -qt -qtmt -kde -arts xfs acl bonobo encode aalib dga dvd
gd alsa esd gtkhtml guile imap -ldap leim mozilla moznomail moznocompose
moznoirc mysql pam perl scanner sse tiff xface xml2"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-03-01 20:57:50 UTC]

please try to reemerge audacity and wxGTK

[Comment 2 Vlad Berditchevskiy 2003-03-01 21:22:57 UTC]

I already did (see above).

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-03-01 22:02:14 UTC]

sorry, i'm a tool ...

what version of audacity ?

[Comment 4 Vlad Berditchevskiy 2003-03-01 22:21:49 UTC]

audacity-1.1.1-r1
I also have the latest stable versions of all GTK/Gnome packages. wxGTK was compiled with "-gtk2".

[Comment 5 John Wu 2003-03-11 10:25:35 UTC]

I looked at some previous segfault problems in bugzilla.  After I saw the one on the missing .Audacity file (bug 15518), I removed the one that was there from emerge, and replaced it the way that fixed it in the other bug report.  (cp /usr/portage/media-sound/audacity/files/basecfg-1.1.1 ~/.Audacity)  and I also removed the .audacity_temp/ directory (since it was no longer set as the temp directory in the config).  After that I was able to run audacity with no problems.

[Comment 6 Vlad Berditchevskiy 2003-03-11 10:44:21 UTC]

John's advice did not work for me. Now I get a dialog box, asking for the Language to use, but after pressing the OK button, I still get the same error.

[Comment 7 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-30 14:28:13 UTC]

*** Bug 18437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 rob holland (RETIRED) 2003-05-13 16:23:13 UTC]

Hi, can you let me know if this bug is still occuring?

thanks

[Comment 9 Vlad Berditchevskiy 2003-05-13 20:14:59 UTC]

I just run audacity - and indeed, it did not occur now! BTW, I didn't reinstall audacity since last time, but maybe upgraded some of the libs it depends on.

[Comment 10 rob holland (RETIRED) 2003-05-14 03:14:12 UTC]

good good :) I'll close the ticket, obviously if it happens again please re-open.

thanks