audacity startup fails stretch amd64

[Russell L. Carter]

Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
the following happens:

1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."

Click ok, then:

2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.

Click continue, then:

3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."

Continue then segfaults.

The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas?

Many thanks,
Russell

[Ric Moore]

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."
2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
Continue then segfaults.
The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas?

You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch
amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric
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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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[Russell L. Carter]

Hi!

Post by Ric Moore

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."
2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
Continue then segfaults.
The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas?

You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch
amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric

This is an agressively cut down system w/o gnome, kde, etc. Just wdm
and fvwm. I have pulse installed and it is running. So I am missing
an early dependency somewhere. I wonder what that could be?

Thanks,
Russell

[Lisi Reisz]

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi!

Post by Ric Moore

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."
2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
Continue then segfaults.
The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas?

You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch
amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric

This is an agressively cut down system w/o gnome, kde, etc. Just wdm
and fvwm. I have pulse installed and it is running. So I am missing
an early dependency somewhere. I wonder what that could be?

As a start, have you run
#aptitude show audacity
to see what the initial situation is?
Lisi

[Russell L. Carter]

Post by Lisi Reisz

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi!

Post by Ric Moore

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."
2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
Continue then segfaults.
The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas?

You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch
amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric

This is an agressively cut down system w/o gnome, kde, etc. Just wdm
and fvwm. I have pulse installed and it is running. So I am missing
an early dependency somewhere. I wonder what that could be?

As a start, have you run
#aptitude show audacity
to see what the initial situation is?

No problems, apparently:

***@sturio> aptitude show audacity
Package: audacity
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.0.6-2
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
<pkg-multimedia-***@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 9,997 k
Depends: audacity-data (= 2.0.6-2), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16),
libavcodec56 (>= 6:11~beta1) | libavcodec-extra-56 (>= 6:11),
libavformat56 (>= 6:11~beta1), libavutil54 (>= 6:11~beta1),
libc6 (>= 2.15), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libflac++6 (>= 1.3.0),
libflac8 (>= 1.3.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.12.0), libid3tag0 (>= 0.15.1b), libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b-3),
libmp3lame0, libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libportaudio2 (>=
19+svn20101113-2~), libportsmf0, libsbsms10, libsndfile1 (>=
1.0.20), libsoundtouch0 (>= 1.8.0), libsoxr0 (>= 0.1.0),
libstdc++6 (>= 4.9), libtwolame0, libvamp-hostsdk3,
libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2),
libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.1.2), libwxbase3.0-0 (>= 3.0.2),
libwxgtk3.0-0 (>= 3.0.2)
Suggests: ladspa-plugin
Description: fast, cross-platform audio editor Audacity is a
multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. It is
designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio.
Audacity features digital effects and spectrum analysis tools.
Editing is very fast and provides unlimited undo/redo.
Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and
AU. Homepage: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Tags: field::arts, interface::x11, role::program, scope::application,
sound::mixer, sound::recorder, uitoolkit::wxwidgets,
use::editing, use::learning, works-with::audio, x11::application

Post by Lisi Reisz
Lisi

[Pierre Frenkiel]

Post by Russell L. Carter
The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas?

hi,
did you try to check:
the playback device in the preferences/devices menu
the temporary files directory in the preferences/directories menu

cheers,

[Sven Arvidsson]

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."
2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
Continue then segfaults.

Check

grep -i Temp ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg

And then check the permissions on that directory.

[Ric Moore]

Post by Sven Arvidsson

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."
2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
Continue then segfaults.

Check
grep -i Temp ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg
And then check the permissions on that directory.

And, again, is your user a member of the "audio" group in /etc/group?
Without permissions, you get no audio. This doesn't depend on any window
manager, it is system. Ric
--
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html

[Russell L. Carter]

Post by Sven Arvidsson

Post by Russell L. Carter
Hi,
I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and
1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store
temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the
preferences dialog."
2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false"
failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but
doesn't reveal anything obvious to me.
3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false"
failed in getRecordDevIndex()."
Continue then segfaults.

Check
grep -i Temp ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg
And then check the permissions on that directory.

Bingo! I had changed the uid for my account a while back and
didn't think to have a look at /var/tmp. Now at least the situation
is documented so that it can be found by google and friends.

Thanks Sven!
Russell

[Cartola]

Post by Russell L. Carter
Bingo! I had changed the uid for my account a while back and
didn't think to have a look at /var/tmp. Now at least the situation
is documented so that it can be found by google and friends.
Thanks Sven!
Russell

Thank you! I've had the same issue, same reason - uid changed - and this has
been the only place where I've found the solution!

Bests!