audacity crashed with SIGSEGV in ExtImportPrefs::PopulateOrExchange()

[Sandor Oroszi]

Binary package hint: audacity

Audacity crashes on startup, after displaying an error message that "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files.", when the TempDir is on an ntfs partition.
The partition is mounted rw with ntfs-3g, and is writable by the user running Audacity.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: audacity 1.3.13-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
AlsaCards:
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                       HDA Intel at 0x94900000 irq 43
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 20 09:55:18 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/audacity
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110322)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/audacity
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x6b9bf0 <_ZN14ExtImportPrefs18PopulateOrExchangeER10ShuttleGui+2208>: mov (%rax),%r13
 PC (0x006b9bf0) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%r13" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: audacity
StacktraceTop:
 ExtImportPrefs::PopulateOrExchange(ShuttleGui&) ()
 ExtImportPrefs::Populate() ()
 ExtImportPrefs::ExtImportPrefs(wxWindow*) ()
 PrefsDialog::PrefsDialog(wxWindow*) ()
 AudacityApp::InitTempDir() ()
Title: audacity crashed with SIGSEGV in ExtImportPrefs::PopulateOrExchange()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (knotify4:1489): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed
 (firefox-bin:10204): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 ExtImportPrefs::PopulateOrExchange (this=0x2af5800, S=...) at prefs/ExtImportPrefs.cpp:782
 ExtImportPrefs::Populate (this=0x2af5800) at prefs/ExtImportPrefs.cpp:84
 ExtImportPrefs::ExtImportPrefs (this=0x2af5800, parent=<value optimized out>) at prefs/ExtImportPrefs.cpp:69
 PrefsDialog::PrefsDialog (this=0x7fff80596c20, parent=<value optimized out>) at prefs/PrefsDialog.cpp:102
 AudacityApp::InitTempDir (this=0x27cb5f0) at AudacityApp.cpp:1530

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Setting importance to high, because this crash is the most frequently crash of audacity on https://errors.ubuntu.com/

[Ben Goldsmith (bgoldsmith)]

Not sure if any use to anybody else but for me, I had to allow R/W access for my user in /var/tmp

[Danilo Siqueira (danilo-bs)]

How does one allow security access from command line to the "/var/tmp"?

I have two machines with audacity installed and both show the same crash error (laptop with ubuntu gnome 14.04 32 bits and pc with ubuntu studio 14.04). None of those have ntfs partitions plugged or connected. After clicking OK on the "Register Effects" window, the program won't even open.