Hello, I fail to reproduce this. I have a suspicion that on some people systems indeed gtk and wxwidgets are causing problems.
Could you try running audacity without GNOME? (e.g. in KDE) Joost On Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:39:57 Géraud Meyer wrote: > Package: audacity > Version: 1.3.3-1+b1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > First I noticed that audacity was crashing when almost any menu item was > used (notably the Preferences item). Moving the configuration file > ~/.audacity aside made audacity refuse to start. Simply launching > audacity outputs this message: > > *** glibc detected *** audacity: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: > 0x08647ba0 *** > > followed by the Backtrace and Memory map that are in the attached file > audacity.crash. > > I suspect there are incompatibilites between the versions of wxwidgets > and gtk because all the programs using wxwidgets that I use crash a lot > since the last GNOME upgrade, although I would not say that something in > the file audacity.crash hints at that cause. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (850, 'testing'), (760, 'stable'), (10, > 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-desk2-k7 (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 libasound2 1.0.14a-2 ALSA library > ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared > libraries ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C > library - runtime li > ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library > ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-3 The GLib library of C routines > ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.0-2 The GTK+ graphical user > interface > ii libid3tag0 0.15.1b-10 ID3 tag reading library > from the M > ii libjack0 0.103.0-6 JACK Audio Connection Kit > (librari > ii libmad0 0.15.1b-2.1 MPEG audio decoder library > ii libogg0 1.1.3-2 Ogg Bitstream Library > ii libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 Library for reading/writing > audio > ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library > v3 ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio > Compressi > ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio > Compressi > ii libvorbisfile3 1.2.0.dfsg-2 The Vorbis General Audio > Compressi > ii libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.1.5 wxBase library (runtime) - > non-GUI > ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.1.5 wxWidgets Cross-platform > C++ GUI t > > audacity recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information
