GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 638261
Ardour crashes with segfault at startup
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:22:26 UTC
Starting Ardour2 or Ardour3 (both build from SVN) or Ardour from Fedoras Repo-Package I get this: Loading ui configuration file /usr/local/etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_dark.rc theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine ardour: [INFO]: Ardour will be limited to 1024 open files loading system configuration file /usr/local/etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc ardour: [INFO]: Using SSE optimized routines Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben) Last line in English: segmentation fault (core dumped) reading /var/log/messages reveals this: Dec 16 15:32:35 denkpad kernel: [ 145.306261] ardour-2.8.11[2445]: segfault at 8 ip 0131f056 sp bffd71d4 error 4 in libc-2.12.90.so[129e000+18d000] Ardours Dev Paul Davis thinks, this is an issue with libxml2 in conjuction with zlib but upgrading libxml2 to its dayly git-snapshot and even downgrading it did not work either. With the fresh install of Fedora14 2 weeks ago the Package from Fedoras repo did work very much OK.
strace revealed, that ardour crashed while reading the LADSPA-Plugin of the CALF-collection. After removing this plugin ardour starts. Still there seems to be something broken: Ardour starts in English only, locale seems to be ignored...
I can confirm this. Running Kubuntu fresh install (11.04) and installed Ardour2 from standard repository. Running Ardour as root is a workaround, but it requires running all other associated programs (e.g. jack) as root too.
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