Bug#861975: audacity doesn't start

[serge]

Package: audacity
Version: 2.0.6-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,



   * What led up to the situation?

# apt-get install audacity

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

$ audacity

   * What was the outcome of this action?

about 50% cpu load, no output, no gui

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

audacity gui start




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  audacity-data     2.0.6-2
ii  libasound2        1.0.28-1
ii  libavcodec56      10:2.8.11-dmo1~bpo8+1
ii  libavformat56     10:2.8.11-dmo1~bpo8+1
ii  libavutil54       10:2.8.11-dmo1~bpo8+1
ii  libc6             2.19-18+deb8u7
ii  libexpat1         2.1.0-6+deb8u3
ii  libflac++6        1.3.0-3
ii  libflac8          1.3.0-3
ii  libgcc1           1:4.9.2-10
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libid3tag0        0.15.1b-11
ii  libmad0           0.15.1b-8
ii  libmp3lame0       1:3.99.5-dmo4
ii  libogg0           1.3.2-1
ii  libportaudio2     19+svn20140130-1
ii  libportsmf0       0.1~svn20101010-4
ii  libsbsms10        2.0.2-1
ii  libsndfile1       1.0.25-9.1+deb8u1
ii  libsoundtouch0    1.8.0-1
ii  libsoxr0          0.1.1-1
ii  libstdc++6        4.9.2-10
ii  libtwolame0       0.3.13-1.1
ii  libvamp-hostsdk3  1:2.5-dmo6
ii  libvorbis0a       1.3.4-2
ii  libvorbisenc2     1.3.4-2
ii  libvorbisfile3    1.3.4-2
ii  libwxbase3.0-0    3.0.2-1+b1
ii  libwxgtk3.0-0     3.0.2-1+b1

audacity recommends no packages.

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
pn  ladspa-plugin  <none>

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