Cannot get any version of Ardour to open

fiendfan1 · 2018-01-08 00:20:15

I have so far installed ardour5 from both testing and community, and ardour6-git from AUR. All behave the same on my system: I see some initialization logging in console. That's it. Process doesn't end, resources aren't used excessively, no error log, no GUI. Here is the console output

bind txt domain [gtk2_ardour6] to /usr/share/ardour6/locale
Ardour6.0.pre0.395 (built using 6.0-pre0-395-g7671268bc and GCC version 7.2.0)
ardour: [INFO]: Your system is configured to limit Ardour to only 4096 open files
ardour: [INFO]: Loading system configuration file /etc/ardour6/system_config
ardour: [INFO]: CPU vendor: GenuineIntel
ardour: [INFO]: AVX-capable processor
ardour: [INFO]: CPU brand:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
ardour: [INFO]: Using SSE optimized routines
ardour: [INFO]: Loading default ui configuration file /etc/ardour6/default_ui_config
Color shuttle bg not found
ardour: [INFO]: Loading color file /usr/share/ardour6/themes/dark-ardour.colors

I've also tried having JACK running on launch, same behavior. Anyone have ideas on how to diagnose/fix this issue?

Last edited by fiendfan1 (2018-01-08 00:23:13)

R00KIE · 2018-01-08 01:17:38

Using wayland or xorg? Have you created any per user configuration or changed anything system wide? Did you try with a new user to rule out stale configuration files?

fiendfan1 · 2018-01-08 05:04:30

R00KIE wrote:

Using wayland or xorg? Have you created any per user configuration or changed anything system wide? Did you try with a new user to rule out stale configuration files?

I am using xorg
I am using a tiling window manager - XMonad
I have not created or edited any files relating to Ardour

I tried with a new user AND new DE/WM (Xfce4), and got a different error message (progress!):

bind txt domain [gtk2_ardour5] to /usr/share/ardour5/locale
Ardour5.12.0 (built using 5.12 and GCC version 7.2.0)
ardour: [INFO]: Your system is configured to limit Ardour to only 4096 open files
ardour: [INFO]: Loading system configuration file /etc/ardour5/system_config
No protocol specified
ardour: [ERROR]: ** ERROR ** VSTFX: Failed opening connection to X
ardour: [ERROR]: could not initialize Ardour.
No protocol specified

(ardour-5.12.0:2504): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

The process now also does exit after displaying this message.

As you may see from the log, $DISPLAY is ":0".
The

No protocol specified

part is interesting...

Last edited by fiendfan1 (2018-01-08 05:25:14)

seth · 2018-01-08 09:09:40

(ardour-5.12.0:2504): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

Output of

ps aux | grep Xorg
loginctl session-status | head

fiendfan1 · 2018-01-09 04:54:07

seth wrote:

(ardour-5.12.0:2504): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

Output of

ps aux | grep Xorg
loginctl session-status | head

[username@arch ~]$ ps aux | grep Xorg
username   693  0.8  0.4 518664 71812 tty1     Sl   15:09   2:59 /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 -auth /tmp/serverauth.glOTKd0Osk
username 21694  0.0  0.0  10884  2316 pts/6    S+   20:48   0:00 grep Xorg

c1 - username (1000)
	   Since: Mon 2018-01-08 15:08:34 PST; 5h 41min ago
	  Leader: 412 (login)
	    Seat: seat0; vc1
	     TTY: tty1
	 Service: login; type tty; class user
	   State: active
	    Unit: session-c1.scope
		  ├─  412 login -- username
		  ├─  536 -bash

That all looks good to me, no?

seth · 2018-01-09 08:30:42

The loginctl says you're not in an X11 session (but a console login) so it's pretty pointless. The ps output however suggest that :0 belongs to your user.

Typical causes for the gtk message are
* no X11 server
* sudo (or other xauthority breakage)
* client hardcodes :0 while you're on :1 (gdm issue)

From the ardour logs i'd rather call #3 a step behind #1 - you simply (somehow) introduced an X11 breakage and don't even make it to where ardour "just" doesn't show a GUI.

=> revert that and run

xev -root -event substructure

Before starting ardour. If there's output from xev a window shows up - you just don't see it.

fiendfan1 · 2018-01-09 23:48:44

seth wrote:

The loginctl says you're not in an X11 session (but a console login) so it's pretty pointless. The ps output however suggest that :0 belongs to your user.

I'm running terminator if that helps.

seth wrote:

Typical causes for the gtk message are
* no X11 server
* sudo (or other xauthority breakage)
* client hardcodes :0 while you're on :1 (gdm issue)
From the ardour logs i'd rather call #3 a step behind #1 - you simply (somehow) introduced an X11 breakage and don't even make it to where ardour "just" doesn't show a GUI.
=> revert that and run

revert what?

seth wrote:

xev -root -event substructure
Before starting ardour. If there's output from xev a window shows up - you just don't see it.

It would appear a window is opening...

CreateNotify event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x497,
    parent 0x497, window 0x3200001, (10,10), width 10, height 10
border_width 0, override NO

How do I find this window / resize / send to correct workspace?

Last edited by fiendfan1 (2018-01-09 23:51:10)

seth · 2018-01-10 08:00:52

I'm running terminator if that helps.

When you were running the loginctl command??

revert what?

new user / xfce

xwininfo -id 0x3200001
xprop -id 0x3200001

Obviously update the ID - you can control it with either xdotool or wmctrl, but this looks like a dummy window or maybe a systray icon.

fiendfan1 · 2018-01-10 22:38:15

seth wrote:

I'm running terminator if that helps.
When you were running the loginctl command??

Yeah all command output shown here was run through terminator in either XMonad or Xfce4.

seth wrote:

revert what?
new user / xfce
xwininfo -id 0x3200001
xprop -id 0x3200001
Obviously update the ID - you can control it with either xdotool or wmctrl, but this looks like a dummy window or maybe a systray icon.

[username@arch ~]$ xwininfo -id 0x1e00001

xwininfo: Window id: 0x1e00001 "ardour-5.12.0"

  Absolute upper-left X:  10
  Absolute upper-left Y:  10
  Relative upper-left X:  10
  Relative upper-left Y:  10
  Width: 10
  Height: 10
  Depth: 24
  Visual: 0x21
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsUnMapped
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +10+10  -1580+10  -1580-880  +10-880
  -geometry 10x10+10+10

[fiendfan1@arch ~]$ xprop -id 0x1e00001
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "ardour-5.12.0", "Ardour-5.12.0"
WM_COMMAND(STRING) = { "ardour-5.12.0" }
_NET_WM_USER_TIME_WINDOW(WINDOW): window id # 0x1e00002
WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x1e00001
_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 5273
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_US.UTF-8"
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "arch"
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
		program specified size: 10 by 10
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  WM_DELETE_WINDOW, WM_TAKE_FOCUS, _NET_WM_PING
WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "ardour-5.12.0"
_NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "ardour-5.12.0"
WM_NAME(STRING) = "ardour-5.12.0"
_NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "ardour-5.12.0"

seth · 2018-01-10 22:46:57

Looks like a legit window, but it's not mapped and the geometry is weird.

xdotool windowmap 0x1e00001
xdotool windowsize 0x1e00001 640 480

Exit_Failure · 2020-11-22 20:10:55

I solved it by changing my desktop GTK2 theme to Adapta-Nokto:

Xfce Settings > Appearance > Style (works with Adapta, Adwaita, Arc, ...)

It's a known bug: Ardour uses a Gtk2 theme with its own colour definitions that clashes with a current desktop Gtk2 theme ("AD-BlueAgave" in my case) if it has a colour definition file.

Tried-and-failed: Deleting or renaming '/usr/share/ardour6/themes/dark-ardour.colors',
that is Ardour's colour file definitions, results in Ardour displaying in harlequin colours.

Tried-and-failed: Disabling system GTK2 theme by setting the environment variable also didn't produce expected results:
$ GTK2_RC_FILES=/nonexistent ardour6 # Failed
$ env GTK2_RC_FILES=/nonexistent ardour6 # Failed
$ export GTK2_RC_FILES=/nonexistent # Failed

Failed with every path: /nonexistent, /dev/null, /usr/share/themes/<any_theme>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

More on the topic and proposed solutions that didn't work for me:
>>> https://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=5605#c18109
>>> https://discourse.ardour.org/t/getting- … s/100424/3

Hope it helps. This is my first post. \(^o^)/
Stay creative and make music!

2ManyDogs · 2020-11-22 20:16:40

Thanks for the contribution, but please pay attention to the dates on threads. This thread is very old, so I am closing it now.

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Cannot get any version of Ardour to open

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