I have a simple session with 6 audio tracks, no plugins, I need to send to colleagues. I tried using “Archive”, but I get an error message saying simply “Session Archiving failed.” No message shows up in the terminal (from where I started Ardour).
I am running Debian Sid and the official Ardour 7.4 build.
Should I just file a bug report? (Can anyone confirm this is a bug?)
Is there anything in Menu > Window > Log ?
Oddly, enough, now I can archive… I did not reboot or change anything in the session. I restarted Ardour, but I had already done that earlier (when it failed).
I will try a few more times and see if fails again. If it does, I post what shows in the Log window.
OK, it’s happening again. The log window shows no new messages after failing. Here is whole content:
2023-05-18T06:23:03 [INFO]: AlsaAudioBackend: adjusted output channel count to match device.
2023-05-18T06:23:03 [INFO]: AlsaAudioBackend: adjusted input channel count to match device.
2023-05-18T06:23:03 [WARNING]: LADSPA</usr/lib/ladspa/dssi-vst.so>: LADSPA no plugins found in module.
2023-05-18T06:23:03 [INFO]: Scanning folders for bundled LV2s: /opt/Ardour-7.4.0/lib/LV2
2023-05-18T06:23:03 [WARNING]: LV2<http://code.mzuther.de/trakmeter/multi/debug>: Ignoring invalid LV2 plugin (missing name, no ports)
2023-05-18T06:23:03 [WARNING]: LV2<http://code.mzuther.de/trakmeter/stereo/debug>: Ignoring invalid LV2 plugin (missing name, no ports)
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://home.gna.org/zyn/zynadd/1>: Unsupported required LV2 feature: 'http://home.gna.org/lv2dynparam/rtmempool/v1'.
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 7 ('CV Input 1') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 8 ('CV Input 2') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 9 ('CV Input 3') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 10 ('CV Input 4') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 11 ('CV Input 5') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 12 ('CV Output 1') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 13 ('CV Output 2') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 14 ('CV Output 3') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 15 ('CV Output 4') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:04 [WARNING]: LV2<http://kxstudio.sf.net/carla/plugins/carlapatchbaycv>: Port 16 ('CV Output 5') has no known data type
2023-05-18T06:23:06 [WARNING]: LV2<https://github.com/HiFi-LoFi/KlangFalter>: Unsupported required LV2 feature: 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/buf-size#fixedBlockLength'.
2023-05-18T06:23:06 [WARNING]: LV2<https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent#adaptive-stereo>: Ignoring invalid LV2 plugin (missing name, no ports)
2023-05-18T06:23:06 [WARNING]: LV2<urn:juce:Vex>: Unsupported required LV2 feature: 'http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/buf-size#fixedBlockLength'.
2023-05-18T06:23:07 [INFO]: harvid version: 901
2023-05-18T06:23:08 [INFO]: Loading menus from /opt/Ardour-7.4.0/etc/ardour.menus
2023-05-18T06:23:08 [INFO]: Loading user ui scripts file /home/finotti/.config/ardour7/ui_scripts
2023-05-18T06:23:09 [INFO]: Loading plugin order file /home/finotti/.config/ardour7/plugin_metadata/plugin_order
2023-05-18T06:23:09 [INFO]: Loading history from /home/finotti/Recordings/tempo_change_bug/tempo_change_bug.history
2023-05-18T06:23:09 [INFO]: tempo_change_bug: no history file "/home/finotti/Recordings/tempo_change_bug/tempo_change_bug.history" for this session.
This particular session is empty of MIDI and audio… It is basically a new session with modified tempo map and location marks. (I was archiving it to submit a different bug report…)
Would it help to run in gdb? Is it just me having this problem?
I have added some additional error message in 7.4.101.
Could you try a https://nightly.ardour.org/ build (demo is fine, can be installed in parallel with other versions)?
Thanks, Robin! But I get exactly the same result. No messages in the Log Window or terminal…
Earlier today I could archive sessions with both versions, but now I cannot. The only audio related actions in between was that I closed Ardour (running with ALSA) and started Carla running with Jack to practice. When I restarted Ardour, I could not archive anymore. But it could have been a coincidence…
Edit: It does seem like a coincidence. I rebooted and could archive before and after running Carla with Jack (for a few seconds).
Perhaps insufficient space in /tmp?
The session to be archived is first assembled in /tmp/ and then zipped up.
If so, you can set the TMPDIR environment variable to pick a different folder.
I don’t think so:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 2.8M 3.2G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 235G 195G 28G 88% /
tmpfs 16G 185M 16G 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 12K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
/dev/sda1 200M 27M 173M 14% /boot/efi
/dev/sdf1 916G 844G 27G 97% /media/music
/dev/sdc3 961G 149G 763G 17% /media/sd_data
/dev/sdg1 3.6T 2.2T 1.3T 63% /media/media
/dev/sdd1 1.8T 474G 1.2T 29% /media/data2
/dev/sdb1 1.8T 1.3T 416G 77% /media/data3
/dev/sde1 3.6T 2.2T 1.3T 64% /media/sg4tb
tmpfs 3.2G 68K 3.2G 1% /run/user/115
tmpfs 3.2G 96K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
Also, this project I am trying to archive now has no MIDI or audio files. (The original one I was trying did have audio files, but I’ve been using this empty one to test.) So, it is really small.
That should be enough, unless you have a session with a lot of Audio files exceeding 28GB (when compressed to FLAC).
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