Bug#526400: audacity: crashes when saving after deleting cursor to end of track

[Rick Pasotto]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:29:04PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > Version: 1.3.6-3
> > Severity: important
> 
> This version is outdated. Can you please check with the current audacity
> in testing/unstable (1.3.7-2)?
> 
> 
> > Whenever I delete 'from cursor to end of track' and then try to export
> > the file (to mp3), the mouse pointer starts blinking and the program
> > hangs. It then has to be killed from another window. Since I'm
> > overwriting the imported file, the original is renamed with the added
> > '0' and the initial 16384 byte file is created.
> 
> Could you provide a step-by-step guide on how to reproduce the bug? What
> I did so far:
> 
>    1. Load song
>    2. Place the cursor somewhere in the middle of the song
>    3. Press and hold left mousebutton to select everything up to the end of
>       the file
>    4. Press Delete (or edit/delete)
>    5. Export file as MP3
> 
> With this sequence, I got a completely normal output file.

Yes, I had been doing that for years.

I *had* upgraded to 1.3.7-2 but using that version I can no longer play
anything. I get a requester 'Error while opening sound device. Please
check the output device settings and the project sample rate.' 

Since that version was unusable I downgraded and that's when the export
problem started.

OK. So I just upgraded again and this time I found the output device
setting in the preferences. It was set to OSS instead of ALSA. Changing
that I am now able to use 1.3.7-2.

Sorry to bother you but why would that setting be lost by upgrading?

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