Unable to Load an Old Session

[drsaamah (Saam R Sany)]

Hi Forum,

I’ve having this problem on both 5.12 (from Ardour not my distro’s repos) as well as Mixbus. There’s a particular project I am trying to revisit and it won’t open. At first it says it cannot find particular tracks although they are there in /interface/[project name]/audiofiles folder. So anyways, I specify the folder upon receiving this prompt and then it acts like its loading, and then crashes. The terminal shows:

Scanning folders for bundled LV2s: /opt/Ardour-5.12.0/lib/LV2
Set cursor set to default
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
watched PID no longer exists - releasing device.

The Ubuntu error dialog that shows up titles the error as “ardour-5.12.0 crashed with SIGSEGV in calf_plugins::audio_module<calf_plugins::equalizer12band_metadata>::process_slice()”
So I guess CALF is the issue, which is fine, I’ll gladly remove the calf plugins from the mix but I really need this project to load. Any idea how to approach this? Thank you in advance.

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

Try “safe mode: disable all plugins” (in the open-session dialog)

[drsaamah (Saam R Sany)]

Bless your heart, Robin. So project now opens. Any idea why Ardour is prompting me to designate directories for audio files that are already in the default folder?
Edit: never mind. Now that I re-saved the project, that is no longer happening. Thanks again @x42.