Bug 1258250

Summary:	audacity fails to start - exits with code 255
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pete Houston <rhbugz>
Component:	audacity	Assignee:	David Timms <dtimms>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	brentrbrian, dtimms, moez.roy
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Description Pete Houston 2015-08-30 14:41:59 UTC

Description of problem:

Starting audacity from a shell prompt just returns the user to the prompt with no diagnostic messages at all. Exit code is 255. This happens even with "audacity -version" eg:

$ audacity -version
$ echo $?
255
$ 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

audacity 2.1.1-1.fc22

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. sudo dnf install audacity
2. audacity

Actual results:

audacity fails to start - no errors/warnings/diagnostics. Exits with error code 255 and control returns to the shell.

Expected results:

audacity starts and shell waits for it to finish.

Additional info:

Audacity does not start when run from menus in the display manager either (Gnome, Enlightenment)

Comment 1 Brent R Brian 2015-08-30 19:25:02 UTC

works fine if you run it with sudo

Comment 2 Brent R Brian 2015-08-30 19:46:39 UTC

also runs as user if you 

rm -rf .audacity-data

Comment 3 David Timms 2015-08-30 22:05:45 UTC

Hi Brent, was this the first time you had installed Audacity on the machine ?

That is, is the .audacity-data folder what this version created, or from an earlier version, and if so what version ?

Comment 4 Pete Houston 2015-08-31 13:51:03 UTC

Thanks Brent for the tip. I confirm that removing the old ~/.audacity-data directory solves the problem for me.

According to the old audacity.cfg file the previous version was 1.3.13-beta.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-11-21 12:17:16 UTC

audacity-2.1.2-0.7.rc1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-51664dda77

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-12-04 10:59:26 UTC

audacity-2.1.2-0.7.rc1.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-4320723725

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-12-04 17:20:28 UTC

audacity-2.1.2-0.7.rc1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update audacity'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-4320723725

Comment 8 Brent R Brian 2015-12-04 19:17:29 UTC

(In reply to David Timms from comment #3)
> Hi Brent, was this the first time you had installed Audacity on the machine ?
> 
> That is, is the .audacity-data folder what this version created, or from an
> earlier version, and if so what version ?

The last version I used was from FEDORA 20 ... skipped F21 ... I keep the machine updated.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-12-18 09:58:47 UTC

audacity-2.1.2-0.7.rc1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-12-22 22:07:17 UTC

audacity-2.1.2-0.7.rc1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.