Ardour won't start anymore

[Floyd (Andreabalbis)]

Hi everyone.
I’ using ardour 6.0.3 on AV linux 2020. It worked fine until i opened plug in in my track (don’t remember exactly the name of the effect but it was an LV2 reverb) and ardour crashed.

Now if i try to open ardour again it starts but i can’t see anything. I remove and re-installed but nothing change.

As you can see now my ardour starts with this different window

but after the scan for plug in it simply disappear and i can’t find it in any workspace, and neither in taskmaanger activity.

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

Possibly Ardour’s config or preferences got messed up in the crash?

Perhaps try to move it out of the way and start over:

mv ~/.config/ardour6/  ~/.config/ardour6.old

It also looks like some color files cannot be loaded. Could you start Ardour from a terminal-window and post the output that’s shown there?

[Floyd (Andreabalbis)]

wow thank you very much, it works!

If it can be useful here is the result of the terminal if i try to open ardour in it:

 >   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/andrea/.config/ardour6/config
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU vendor: GenuineIntel
Ardour: [INFO]: CPU brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz
Ardour: [INFO]: Using SSE 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/andrea/.config/ardour6/ui_config
Ardour: [INFO]: Loading 449 MIDI patches from /opt/Ardour-6.3.0/share/patchfiles
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/andrea/.config/ardour6/templates:/opt/Ardour-6.3.0/share/templates