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pirogornian

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Registered: 2013-06-09

Posts: 14

Audacity crashes on audio bar left-click (GTK3?)[SOLVED]

After today update Audacity started to crashjust on simple selection of anything (or, more presisely, on releasing mouse button). So, any work is impossible. However, backtrace suggest an issue with GTK 3:
https://pastebin.com/wGVZjbYh
I cannot find any mention about this kind of crash on the Internet.

Moreover, before I have got crash on every click just above audio bar, but learned to avoided it.

Searching on the Internet suggests me this is rather very specific error, but hope dies the last.

As a very last workaround, could someone suggest an alternative to audacity? I mean recording, simple editing and denoising.

Last edited by pirogornian (2024-09-24 11:34:50)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,875

Re: Audacity crashes on audio bar left-click (GTK3?)[SOLVED]

Are you using any form of (fractional) scaling? I can't repro this at all, and the crasher suggest somewhere in some scaling code that likely the custom audacity widgets barf on for some reason. e.g. does starting audacity with

GDK_SCALE=1 audacity

prevent the crash?

As for alternatives you might want to give tenacity a shot which is a fork of audacity.

Last edited by V1del (2024-09-23 20:30:35)

pirogornian

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Registered: 2013-06-09

Posts: 14

Re: Audacity crashes on audio bar left-click (GTK3?)[SOLVED]

Are you using any form of (fractional) scaling?

No, at least not intentionally.

does starting audacity with

GDK_SCALE=1 audacity

prevent the crash?

No. I'vetried also with 0, 2 and 0.5.

Moreover, I released it crashes also with any left-click on the audio bar. Right-click works fine, also a left-click that dismisses the post-right-click dialog.

As for alternatives you might want to give tenacity a shot which is a fork of audacity.

I just tried it and it works, atleast for now. Much thanks.

Edit: as Tenacity also started crashing (this timeat saving project), but but left much more informative logs, I found the solution in this thread (it also fixed audacity).

Last edited by pirogornian (2024-09-24 11:34:11)