Ardour 8.8 released

#9

I think too it would be great if the older versions would be available somewhere on the site, so that people could fall-back to older versions in such situations until the problem is located. :slightly_smiling_face:

#10

Do you still have the installer with you?

#11

Does disabling waveform display in preferences help?

For those who experience this issue, could you provide a crash report or backtrace?

#12

i am in the studio right now so can’t do a dbg,
However in a panic, I just downloaded and installed the liquorix kernel, and the problem went away.
Was on ubuntu focal with lowlatency kernel 6.8.0-45 - get crashes and awful stutters and xruns.
Now on 6.11.2-1-liquorix-amd64, and it’s back to normal. Recording complete takes with no problem.

#13

I disabled show waveform while recording in preferences and have now done 4 test recordings, all more than 3 minutes long without a crash. This is in a session which was previously crashing.
I had liquorix kernel whilst the problem was ongoing, now it seems to be resolved.
I cant do a dbg as i currently don’t have nightlies access (waiting for V9)
Many thanks

#14

In my case, I unchecked the three checkboxes in the vaweform preferences (show in regions, while recording and clippling) but no success. I cannot do anything. Any action involving the playhead (moving it around, playing, recording) freezes the program.

I also tried disabling the plugins with no luck.

Could you point me to how to provide a crash report or backtrace?

I am using LUbuntu 22.04.5 release, with 6.8.0-40-generic kernel (threadirqs and preempt=full flags)

#15

Can you point me into how to do that?

Thanks

#16

https://ardour.org/debugging_ardour

in short: start a debug build (https://nightly.ardour.org/) from a terminal:

Ardour8 --gdb

then on the gdb prompt: run and when Ardour crashes, back on the gdb prompt: thread apply all bt

#17

I just installed it and still the same problem. Thanks anyway.

#18

I’ll try now. At the same time, I ask you to provide an older version of the app (8.6 was working fine for me) so I can keep on working, and then I’ll update when the bug is fixed.

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#19

This is a bit like a joke. In that page the Download button is disabled. I then followed the link List of all available versions, installed last for my system, but when running it with the --gdb it gives me this error:

/usr/local/bin/Ardour8: 47: exec: gdb: not found

(I guess because that link points to non debuggable versions of Ardour?)

So I am stuck now into getting a debuggable nightly version.

#20

Seems like 8.9 with fixes will be out soon.

#21

In that case you need to install gdb. Assuming you’re on a debian based distro:

sudo apt install gdb
#22

Thanks, but that returns a 403 forbidden

#23

Here is Ardour 8.6 (Linux) so that you can continue working: Ardour-8.6.0-x86_64.run - Google Drive

#24

Ok, so I reinstalled Ardour-8.6 (thanks Mikael) but the problem was still there. Then by chance I openend the Audio/Midi setup window and pulseaudio was selected instead of Jack. When changing to jack everything was working again.

I don’t know why Ardour choosed PulseAudio instead of jack when jack was already running. Anyway, reinstalled 8.8 and working again.

Thanks to all you for your help. Good work.

#25

Ardour 8.6 Download link disabled.

#26

There are now 8.8.6 https://nightly.ardour.org builds, which should fix the crashes with waveform display.

Please do test, and there will be a 8.9 release if the crash fix is confirmed.

PS. at the time of writing only Linux and Windows builds are complete. macOS versions are still underway.

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