Ardour 2 crashes

Hi all,
first, excuse me for my english, I’m french.

I recently downloaded Ardour 2 on my mac os 10.9.5.
When I try to run Ardour the session control opens, but after I click on “new”, the software crashes.
Jack pilot is installed and works perfectly, so I don’t understand…
I’ve already tried to reinstall ardour, but it still crashes.

here is a part of the system report (very long…) :

"Process: Ardour2.bin [1622]
Path: /Applications/Ardour.app/Contents/MacOS/Ardour2.bin
Identifier: org.ardour.Ardour2
Version: 2.8.11/7387 (2.8.11/7387)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [158]
Responsible: Ardour2.bin [1622]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2015-01-10 17:56:02.068 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 697BE350-C17A-250C-EDB1-0083EE49232A

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘_setFrameworkScaleFactor called with non-nil _borderView’

Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0 CoreFoundation 0x9b003471 __raiseError + 193
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9bacd091 objc_exception_throw + 162
2 CoreFoundation 0x9b0032f8 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 136
3 Foundation 0x95a86637 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 116
4 AppKit 0x9995b779 -[NSWindow(NSWindow_Scale) _setFrameworkScaleFactor:] + 169
5 AppKit 0x9995b6bf -[NSWindow(NSWindow_Scale) _setScaleFactor:] + 44
6 AppKit 0x9995b2a3 -[NSWindow _commonInitFrame:styleMask:backing:defer:] + 152
7 AppKit 0x9995ab53 -[NSWindow _initContent:styleMask:backing:defer:contentView:] + 1090
8 AppKit 0x9995a70a -[NSWindow initWithContentRect:styleMask:backing:defer:] + 70
9 libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x016d06de gdk_window_set_decorations + 746
10 Ardour2.bin 0x00377577 _ZN6Splash10on_realizeEv + 241
11 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb62bf g_type_class_meta_marshal + 97
12 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb5fbc g_closure_invoke + 367
13 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fcf01c signal_emit_unlocked_R + 1435
14 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce56d g_signal_emit_valist + 2196
15 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce8a3 g_signal_emit + 44
16 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0143c7e8 gtk_widget_realize + 465
17 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x01455de0 gtk_window_show + 333
18 libgtkmm2.dylib 0x01a1b2a0 _ZN3Gtk12Widget_Class13show_callbackEP10_GtkWidget + 132
19 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb62bf g_type_class_meta_marshal + 97
20 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb5fbc g_closure_invoke + 367
21 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fcf01c signal_emit_unlocked_R + 1435
22 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce56d g_signal_emit_valist + 2196
23 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce8a3 g_signal_emit + 44
24 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0143bc93 gtk_widget_show + 221
25 Ardour2.bin 0x00011749 _ZN9ARDOUR_UI11show_splashEv + 33

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9b003dc7 TERMINATING_DUE_TO_UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION + 7
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9b003770 __raiseError + 960
2 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9bacd091 objc_exception_throw + 162
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9b0032f8 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 136
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x95a86637 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 116
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x9995b779 -[NSWindow(NSWindow_Scale) _setFrameworkScaleFactor:] + 169
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x9995b6bf -[NSWindow(NSWindow_Scale) _setScaleFactor:] + 44
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x9995b2a3 -[NSWindow _commonInitFrame:styleMask:backing:defer:] + 152
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x9995ab53 -[NSWindow _initContent:styleMask:backing:defer:contentView:] + 1090
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x9995a70a -[NSWindow initWithContentRect:styleMask:backing:defer:] + 70
10 libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x016d06de gdk_window_set_decorations + 746
11 Ardour2.bin 0x00377577 Splash::on_realize() + 241
12 libgtkmm2.dylib 0x01a1b520 Gtk::Widget_Class::realize_callback(_GtkWidget*) + 132
13 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fd0034 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID + 162
14 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb62bf g_type_class_meta_marshal + 97
15 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb5fbc g_closure_invoke + 367
16 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fcf01c signal_emit_unlocked_R + 1435
17 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce56d g_signal_emit_valist + 2196
18 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce8a3 g_signal_emit + 44
19 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0143c7e8 gtk_widget_realize + 465
20 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x01455de0 gtk_window_show + 333
21 libgtkmm2.dylib 0x01a1b2a0 Gtk::Widget_Class::show_callback(_GtkWidget*) + 132
22 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fd0034 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID + 162
23 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb62bf g_type_class_meta_marshal + 97
24 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fb5fbc g_closure_invoke + 367
25 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fcf01c signal_emit_unlocked_R + 1435
26 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce56d g_signal_emit_valist + 2196
27 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x00fce8a3 g_signal_emit + 44
28 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0143bc93 gtk_widget_show + 221
29 Ardour2.bin 0x00011749 ARDOUR_UI::show_splash() + 33
30 Ardour2.bin 0x0001f442 ARDOUR_UI::create_engine() + 162
31 Ardour2.bin 0x00024d4d ARDOUR_UI::get_session_parameters(bool, bool) + 475
32 Ardour2.bin 0x000256fc ARDOUR_UI::startup() + 202
33 Ardour2.bin 0x0048e07b sigc::internal::signal_emit0<void, sigc::nil>::emit(sigc::internal::signal_impl*) + 171
34 libgtkmm2ext.dylib 0x01cb819c Gtkmm2ext::UI::run(Receiver&) + 110
35 Ardour2.bin 0x002771fc main + 1098
36 Ardour2.bin 0x00004d06 _start + 216
37 Ardour2.bin 0x00004c2d start + 41"

Thank you for your help, I hope you’ll find a solution.

Bonjour,

In general crash/bug reports should go to http://tracker.ardour.org/
But Ardour2 is end-of-life since over two years. For OSX, I highly recommend a very recent Ardour3 version:
http://nightly.ardour.org/

@x42 Technically A3 hasn’t been officially released for OS X, so not sure you could say A2 is EOL on it. That being said…

@Ripanof Not sure that A2 was ever thoroughly tested on 10.9, sorry. Despite not being officially released, I would strongly suggest one of the nightlies x42 mentioned, they are much better on OS X.

    Seablade

I was actually looking for a newer version (not A3 because on os x, looks like it’s only a demo for the moment).
Ardour nightly for mac works perfectly, thank you very much for your fast answers ! :smiley: