Bug#584605: audacity: Segfaults with complaint about jack server not running

[Dave Witbrodt]

Package: audacity
Version: 1.3.12-3
Severity: important
Tags: sid


The last time I used audacity, everything was working fine.  (This was a
few months ago... maybe January.)  There have been several updates in
Sid since then.  Today I wanted to use audacity, but this is what I get:

    $ audacity
    Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
    Cannot connect to server socket
    jack server is not running or cannot be started
    Segmentation fault

Removing the ~/.audacity-data directory has no effect.

Is JACK now required to be able to use audacity?  In the past, it worked
fine for me just using ALSA.


Thanks,
Dave W.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34+drt100429.0818fe9.desktop.kms (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  audacity-data            1.3.12-3        A fast, cross-platform audio edito
ii  libasound2               1.0.22-2        shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                    2.11.1-2        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libexpat1                2.0.1-7         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac++6               1.2.1-2+b1      Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac8                 1.2.1-2+b1      Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.4.4-4       GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.25.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.21.1-1+xidfix The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libid3tag0               0.15.1b-10      ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjack0                 1.9.5~dfsg-13   JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libmad0                  0.15.1b-5       MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libogg0                  1.2.0~dfsg-1    Ogg bitstream library
ii  libsamplerate0           0.1.7-3         Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsndfile1              1.0.21-2        Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libsoundtouch1c2         1.3.1-2         sound stretching library
ii  libstdc++6               4.4.4-4         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtwolame0              0.3.12-1        MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar
ii  libvamp-hostsdk3         2.1-1           helper library for Vamp hosts writ
ii  libvorbis0a              1.3.1-1         The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2            1.3.1-1         The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3           1.3.1-1         The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwxbase2.8-0           2.8.10.1-3      wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.8-0            2.8.10.1-3      wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

Versions of packages audacity recommends:
ii  libavcodec52       5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii  libavformat52      5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg file format library

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
pn  ladspa-plugin                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  libmp3lame0                   3.98.4-0.0 LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

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