[SOLVED] Ardour 6.3 does not start after upgrade from 5.12

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

I previously used ardour under Ubuntu from debian packages, which will have been version 5.12 according to https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/ardour (I am running ubuntu bionic). Now I donated and downloaded the latest official binary release from ardour.org.

After installing it, it found my old config and asked me to import it. (Which I assume might be the problem)

Now the program starts until the project selection screen and afterwards crashes after a while.

Ardour6.3.0 (built using 6.3 and GCC version 6.3.0 20170516)
Ardour: [INFO]: Your system is configured to limit Ardour to 1048576 open files
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading system configuration file /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/etc/system_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading user configuration file /home/ch/.config/ardour6/config
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU vendor: GenuineIntel
Ardour: [INFO]: AVX-capable processor
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz
Ardour: [INFO]: Using AVX optimized routines
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading plugin meta data file /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/share/plugin_metadata/plugin_tags
Cannot xinstall SIGPIPE error handler
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading default ui configuration file /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/etc/default_ui_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading user ui configuration file /home/ch/.config/ardour6/ui_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading 449 MIDI patches from /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/share/patchfiles
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading color file /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/share/themes/dark-ardour.colors
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading ui configuration file /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/etc/clearlooks.rc
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading bindings from /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/etc/ardour.keys
Loading ui configuration file /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/etc/clearlooks.rc
Found nothing along /home/ch/.config/ardour6/templates:/opt/Ardour-6.3.0/share/templates
protocol Wiimote not found
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted (core dumped)

My questions are: Do you think this can be solved by resetting the configuration? And how can I do so? Will I be able to work on my old projects?

#2

Is this with an old project or creating a new project?

If an old project, can you try creating a new project and see if that works?

Seablade
#3

It is the same for both, old and new

#4

If you move the config directory somewhere else, and don’t tell it to import from 5, does it work?

Seablade

#5 
rm -rf ~/.config/ardour6

or better, just move instead of re-move it:

mv  ~/.config/ardour6 /tmp/

At the point where this happens, Ardour scans plugins, likely LADSPA. This reminds me of similar issues with Ubuntu: SOLVED ERROR at start in 18.10

try to remove the old LV1 plugins sudo dpkg -P csladspa calf-ladspa

#6

Thank you very much. It was not related to the config at all.
sudo dpkg -P csladspa solved the problem. And it works now even with the old config and old projects.
(although some plugins are missing now. I will solve this next :wink: )

#7

@x42 got there much quicker but that was my suspicion as well, that it was crashing in a plugin scan and a plugin was to blame. Dang that cs-ladspa rears it’s head a lot.

    Seablade
#8

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