Audacity hangs while starting
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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audacity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
My system is an up-to-date Xubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
When I try to start audacity, it just never shows the UI. The process hangs forever without using CPU or other system resources. The line from `top` looks like this:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
52059 me 20 0 221800 51444 43524 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.08 audacity
When running from console, I see the following messages:
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
(Audacity:52059): GLib-CRITICAL **: 02:34:55.618: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
(Audacity:52059): Gnome-WARNING **: 02:34:55.641: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libgail-gnome' which is needed to make this application accessible
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
(Audacity:52059): GLib-CRITICAL **: 02:34:55.643: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
(Audacity:52059): GLib-GObject-
I already removed all audacity files (config etc) from my home directory, and I checked there is nothing about audacity in /etc/.
I also checked using strace what's going on behind the scenes, but I didn't find anything that looked like the usual causes (file not found, directory missing, access denied)
Last time when I used audacity it worked fine. I think that was ~April 2020, likely before upgrading ubuntu to 20.04.
My setup:
$ dpkg -l | grep audacity
ii audacity 2.3.3-1build1 amd64 fast, cross-platform audio editor
ii audacity-data 2.3.3-1build1 all fast, cross-platform audio editor (data)
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: audacity 2.3.3-1build1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64
AlsaCards:
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Feb 17 02:35:26 2021
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/audacity
SourcePackage: audacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-17 (275 days ago)