Hi Robert, A little more information and a possible workaround.
I reinstalled the unstable packages last night. Then I turned off the "show waveforms while recording" option and was able to record four simultaneous stereo tracks at 96 KHz for over an hour without incident. Then I tried a single-stereo-track cd-quality capture again and it ran for well over an hour without incident. So I think I have a workaround for this if I turn off waveforms while recording. The strange thing is that, when ardour/jack failed previously, there was no obvious indication of distress due to timing, the IDE subsystem, or anything else. To answer your questions: >> ardour-gtk loads fine, connects to jack, but crashes after about 90 >> seconds of record time. Interesting thing -- if I add 3 more stereo >> tracks to the session to make a total of four stereo tracks, and record >> the same data on all of them simultaneously, ardour crashes in just >> about 1/4 the time -- about 22 seconds. >Nice. So That seems to be a similar problem. But now ardour is crashing >instead of just disconnecting? Aha. I should have been more specific. In all the cases I've reported ardour just terminates abruptly with no message and of course jack reports that ardour has been disconnected. Actually I think ardour-gtk-i686 from experimental might have reported a segfault on exit but the other cases do not. >> This system seems quite stable in general. I've been able to do many >> successful recordings longer than 40 minutes with audacity, so I >>don't >Is that audacity via jack or directly via alsa? >If that was directly alsa, could you try some trivial JACK application >(like jackrec but there are others) to record for a long time? >Do only this if the 50MByte ardour-gtk-dbg package needed below seems >to be a bit large for you ;-) Yes,that's audacity directly via alsa. I didn't know it was jack-aware. I can try using it via jack if so. I can certainly also try ecasound or jackrec or some other jack capture tool. But first I'm off to download and run the debug packages and will let you know what I find with recording waveforms turned back on. No, they are not too big. :-) Cheers, Mark -- Mark McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
