Bug 141069 – Missing cursor in Audacity

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Tiago 2006-07-19 12:53:43 UTC]

I'm running media-sound/audacity, version 1.3.0b. This problem also appears in version 1.2.1, currently marked stable for x86.

When doing recording or playback, the audacity cursor (the one running top to bottom across all tracks which indicates the current recording/playback position) does not move. Instead it blinks and remains in the same place.

Repositioning the cursor by clicking elsewhere works (the cursor moves to that position, and then remains stationary). Playback does *not* skip to the new location, but by pressing stop and then play it starts from there.

I'm running audacity "under KDE", although I suppose that shouldn't make any difference. Switching the GTK theme doesn't help. I could try running it under Gnome but I don't have it on my system presently, so it would take me some time to emerge it.

Any suggestions? Here goes emerge --info.

Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer notitles parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cli crypt cscope css cups curl dbus directfb dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdread dvi emacs encode esd fame fat fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb ftp fuse gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jack java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mbox mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mng mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mule ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pcre pdf pdflib perl php plotutils png ppds pppd python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real reflection reiserfs samba scanner sdl session slang sndfile snmp sockets softmmu sox speech speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl subtitles svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff timidity tokenizer toolbar transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xcomposite xine xml2 xmms xorg xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Alexis Ballier 2007-03-31 14:09:13 UTC]

could you please try with 1.3.2-r1 and report upstream if this is still a bug ?
unfortunately there is not much we can do for that if it's not a gentoo-specific bug

[Comment 2 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 16:17:23 UTC]

please reopen if you still have the problem.