Re: [LAU] Audacity on Ubuntu 14.04 is REALLY unstable

On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:07:13 -0400
Alan McKay <alan.mckay@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I took Audacity out of apt and wow is it unstable. Constantly
> hanging. At least it is able to recover most of the time after a
> restart - except for once last night where I lost my LP rip. It was
> bearable before then but now I want a better solution.
>
> Is anyone else having this problem?
> Any solution in mind?
> Should I pull down one of the daily builds from Audacity and try it?
> Or build from source or something?
>
> My Ubuntu is fully updated.
>
> I was also thinking of trying CentOS7 to see how that does.
>
> thanks,
> -Alan

Hi Alan,

are the crashes reproducible? Is there any pattern to the crashes?
What is your configuration (record/play through PA, ALSA, jack)?
What sort of work do you do? What sort of operations? Do you have
massive file sizes?

Regards,
Philipp
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Received on Mon Aug 18 12:15:01 2014