Quoting wzabo...@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl (2017-10-08 14:38:01) > W dniu 08.10.2017 o 14:13, Jonas Smedegaard pisze: > > Quoting Wojciech Zabołotny (2017-10-08 13:34:16) > >> When I start the jack server, and then ardour5, it does not start. > >> The "top" shows that ardour5 uses one CPU core in 100%. > >> When I start it via "strace", I get the following messages displayed > >> repeatedly: > > [...] > >> It looks, that ardour tries to load the Breeze gtk theme, and when it > >> fails, > >> it repeats that forever. > >> I can see two problems there: > >> 1. ardour should depend on the appropriate package providing the required > >> GUI theme > >> 2. ardour should fail, displaying the reasonable error message without > >> looping forever. > > Ardour does _not_ depend on a specific GTK+ widget theme. > > > > Perhaps a bug elsewhere - e.g. in GTK+ or that particular theme - is > > triggered? > > > > Did you configure your environment to use Breeze? Could you please try > > switch to a different GTK+ theme instead? > > > > Perhaps create a temporary new user on your system and start Ardour from > > there - to help avoid cruft in your own $HOME environment interfering. > > > Dear Jonas, > > Thanks a lot for your suggestions. > > That's interesting. Of course, I have cleaned up the ~/.config/ardour4 > and ~/.config/ardour5 directories before submitting the first report, > and it didn't help.
So you tried cleanup, but only the (too narrow) part you suspected to cause the error. > However indeed, when I logged in as another user, ardour started > correctly. Good to hear! > So the problem probably indeed is not ardour related (however I don't > know why only ardour suffers from that). It might very well be that Ardour is particularly vulnerable to being fed a broken GTK+ theme. Which seems to be the case here. > PS. Is it possible that > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874598 is caused by > the same problem? Possibly, yes. But instead of (again) too narrowly draw conclusion best to find something that works (e.g. a fresh account) and triangulate from there, as you did here. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
