Sorry to bring this up, a bug like this has to have been covered already, but I can’t find it on the forum – at least not yet.
Anyway, I can’t start Ardour. The GUI starts up, the Resent Sessions dialog appears (I select New), I also select to use an empty Template, The Audio/MIDI Setup Dialog apears (I select Start), i then get yhe warning that my system has a limit for the amount of locked memory (I’ve alwasy gotten that), I cleck the OK button, and then CRASH. I’ve tried Ardour 8.12, and 9.2 and 9.5.
I try and start it from the command line and it gives me a “Floating point exception (core dumped) ./ardour9” error.
I haven’t used Ardour for several months now, hoping this error would resolve itself, but I hasn’t yet.
Not much:
I had that on at least on linux distribution which uses pipewire as soundserver. Also if i have chosen “alsa” in ardour, iirc i also tried to stop pipewire.
I didn’t really investigate long, so i couldn’t figure it out (i just removed pipewire and installed jack, which i don’t need for ardour, but for other things).
Perhaps if you add the info which distribution and which soundserver you use someone else has got an idea (as far i can tell most distributions now use pipewire per default). As pipewire works fine in other distributions, like AV Linux, this might well be unrelated.
Good luck.
Hi,
This surprise morning: my ardour 9.5 crash at startup while it was working previously. I use kubuntu with the jack server.
Since I had installed the latest version “nightly”, I tested to remove my ardour9 config in the .config directory.
I start ardour again 9.5 and … it works. I rescanned my preferences and rescan my plugins.
We’ll see if it works in the long run.
my conclusion: beware of “nightly”
I’m going to try changing my sound server tonight when I get home from work. I didn’t use the nightly build, but I do think my problem lies with the sound server Kunbuntu (I’m using version 26.4) uses by default (pipewire). I let you folks know how it turns out.