I’ve just gotten done EQing and compressing all my tracks and busses for a sick new song only to have Ardour crash in the process. On trying to re-open the session, the program repeatedly segmented. In an effort to get around this (hoping this was a bug fixed upstream), I upgraded from some 2.4.x version to Fedora’s latest 2.6.x Rawhide offering. Sadly, my results are the same. Here is the readout from the shell on trying to open the session in question:
[fpoole@fpoole Voices Within]$ ardour2 Voices\ Within.ardour WARNING: Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory! This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs out of memory. You can view the memory limit with 'ulimit -l', and it is normally controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf Ardour/GTK 2.6 (built using 4004 and GCC version 4.3.2 20081007 (Red Hat 4.3.2-6)) Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Paul Davis Some portions Copyright (C) Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren, Joel Baker Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions. loading default ui configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_default.conf loading user ui configuration file /home/fpoole/.ardour2/ardour2_ui.conf Loading ui configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_dark.rc (ardour-2.6:3094): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule (/usr/lib64/ardour2/engines/libclearlooks.so) initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch) ardour: [INFO]: Ardour will be limited to 1024 open files loading system configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc loading user configuration file /home/fpoole/.ardour2/ardour.rc ardour: [INFO]: Using SSE optimized routines ardour: [INFO]: looking for control protocols in /home/fpoole/.ardour2/surfaces/:/usr/lib64/ardour2/surfaces/ ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Mackie" ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol Tranzport not usable powermate: Opening of powermate failed - No such file or directory ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol powermate not usable ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: "Generic MIDI" canonical, use /home/fpoole/Ardour/Voices Within/Voices Within JACK COMMAND: /usr/bin/jackd -p 128 -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 44100 -p 1024 -d hw:1,0 jackd 0.109.2 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. apparent rate = 44100 creating alsa driver ... hw:1,0|hw:1,0|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:1 configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames (23.2 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 16bit little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 16bit little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for playback loading bindings from /etc/ardour2/mnemonic-us.bindings Loading session /home/fpoole/Ardour/Voices Within/Voices Within using snapshot Voices Within (1) Segmentation fault [fpoole@fpoole Voices Within]$ subgraph starting at ardour timed out (subgraph_wait_fd=10, status = 0, state = Triggered)
Any and all help is appreciated… I’d hate to do all this work over again. :’(