hi i experience the same problem with the beta3 version. i can also reproduce the crash my system is a laptop with 2GB ram $ uname -a > Linux localhost 2.6.24.4.tex3 #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 16:07:20 CDT 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a > LSB Version: sb-3.1-ia32:lsb-3.1-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:lsb-3.0-ia32:lsb-3.0-noarch Distributor ID: MandrivaLinux Description: PCLinuxOS Release: 2007 Codename: PCLinuxOS i dont use a realtime kernel but I run jackd via QJackCtl with the following settings jackd runs with nice -19 JACK_RELEASE = 0-111-5 JACK_VERSION = 0.111.5 JACK_PROTOCOL_VERSION = 23 JACK_SO_VERSION = 0:28:0 realtime ON soft mode ON priority 75 frames 256 buffer 4 lactency 21.2ms hardware alesis io2 some other libs qt version 4.4.0 libvorbisfile version 1.2.0-1 libvorbis version 1.2.0 libsndfile version 1.0.18-0 libalsa2 version 1.0.16-1 mixxx, jack, qt and other libs are manually compiled gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-4pclos2007) i collected some informations with gdb and the normal logging. this is the debug logging and backtrace from gdb [New Thread -1333044320 (LWP 5046)] [Thread -1333044320 (LWP 5046) exited] Debug: Midi OK (Workaround not required) Debug: setupMappings( "/usr/local//share/mixxx/midi/Evolution_Xsession.midi.xml" ) Debug: slotApply crossfader: 1 "SlowFade" Debug: Load to player2: "/home/olodumare/Documents/audio/remix/mochipet_contest_may_2008/35 - 099_lazyday_kflay_voxx.wav" Debug: file length 18816000 i Debug: WaveSummary generation successful for "35 - 099_lazyday_kflay_voxx.wav" Debug: BPM detection failed, setting to 0. Debug: Load to player2: "/home/olodumare/Documents/audio/remix/mochipet_contest_may_2008/37 - 108_do_what_you_feel_voxx.wav" Debug: file length 16856000 i Debug: WaveSummary generation successful for "37 - 108_do_what_you_feel_voxx.wav" Debug: BPM detection successful for "37 - 108_do_what_you_feel_voxx.wav" Debug: BPM 75.8267 Debug: Load to player1: "/home/olodumare/Documents/audio/traxx/Death_to_the_Fascist_Pigs_6.ogg" Debug: file length 20869726 i Debug: WaveSummary generation successful for "Death_to_the_Fascist_Pigs_6.ogg" Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1324651616 (LWP 5038)] SoundSourceOggVorbis::read (this=0x882e8c0, size=8192, destination=0xb10b22f4) at src/soundsourceoggvorbis.cpp:129 129 dest[index] = 0; (gdb) bt #0 SoundSourceOggVorbis::read (this=0x882e8c0, size=8192, destination=0xb10b22f4) at src/soundsourceoggvorbis.cpp:129 #1 0x0816e6a2 in BpmDetector::run (this=0x85477c0) at src/bpmdetector.cpp:198 #2 0xb6e5a512 in QThreadPrivate::start (arg=0x85477c0) at thread/qthread_unix.cpp:190 #3 0xb6bfe562 in start_thread () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 #4 0xb66994de in clone () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 SoundSourceOggVorbis::read (this=0x882e8c0, size=8192, destination=0xb10b22f4) at src/soundsourceoggvorbis.cpp:129 No locals. #1 0x0816e6a2 in BpmDetector::run (this=0x85477c0) at src/bpmdetector.cpp:198 pSoundSource = (class SoundSourceProxy *) 0x882e610 pos = 20865024 end = 20869726 frequency = 44100 samples = {0 } channels = 2 bpmd = {_vptr.BpmDetect = 0x821a040, xcorr = 0x88567d0, envelopeAccu = 1.40129846e-45, RMSVolumeAccu = 9.72530365, decimateCount = 24, decimateSum = 0, decimateBy = 88, windowLen = 400, channels = 2, sampleRate = 44100, maxBpm = 170, minBpm = 75, windowStart = 176, buffer = 0x882ec18} data16 = {0 } length = Variable "length" is not available. i have no log file as gdb didnt write logging into a seprate file even if I adjusted it this way and there is also no core file hope this helps. peace olo