On Saturday 13 June 2015 05:41:02 Russell L. Carter wrote: > Hi! > > On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and > >> the following happens: > >> > >> 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store > >> temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the > >> preferences dialog." > >> > >> Click ok, then: > >> > >> 2. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2363): assert "false" > >> failed in getPlayDevIndex()." A backtrace is available but > >> doesn't reveal anything obvious to me. > >> > >> Click continue, then: > >> > >> 3. An error popup appears stating: "AudioIO.cpp(2416): assert "false" > >> failed in getRecordDevIndex()." > >> > >> Continue then segfaults. > >> > >> The googleman doesn't provide any clues. Ideas? > > > > You made me go and look. Audacity launches just fine running stretch > > amd64. Are you joined to the audio group? Ric > > This is an agressively cut down system w/o gnome, kde, etc. Just wdm > and fvwm. I have pulse installed and it is running. So I am missing > an early dependency somewhere. I wonder what that could be?
As a start, have you run #aptitude show audacity to see what the initial situation is? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506130930.19377.lisi.re...@gmail.com
