Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 221126
audacity, fc6: immediate segmentation error in gdk library on running
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:52 EST
Description of problem: After downloading audacity (pirut), on running it in FC6, was preseneted with a dialog asking me to select a language (selected english). After pressing ok it crashed with the following error: Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 337 (gdk_string_width): assertion `font != NULL' failed. Segmentation fault How reproducible: Have uninstalled and re-installed. Have also tried the other version from livna. Always the same. ? Missing dependency ? All software on the system has been loaded directly using pirut, using fedora core, updates, extras, and livna repositories. Have seen another (German) user report exactly the same problem: http://www.fedoraforum.de/viewtopic.php?p=50399&sid=f7c40f47731d54e247e2e8bc9603e56c
Seems to be a missing font issue. Please provide the output of: rpm -qa | grep fonts
Yes, I've tried loading what I could find.. rpm -qa | grep fonts gives: xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.1-2 dejavu-fonts-2.11-1.fc6 xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2 xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.1-2 xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2 urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.1-2 hunky-fonts-0.3.1-4.fc6 ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1.1 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.1-2 bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-7 bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1.1 msttcorefonts-2.0-1 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.1-2 dejavu-lgc-fonts-2.10-1 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.1-2
Fonts seem to be ok. What is your LANG setting? Try to start audacity with "CFLAGS=C audacity". There is a new build of audacity (1.2.6) on its way. Try again with the new version. If everything fails, provide the output of "strace -f audacity".
LANG setting made no difference. OK, will wait till the new build gets released. Thx
Created attachment 144843 [details] Log of trace output Output of the command: strace -f audacity 2> Desktop/audacity.log This was done following installation of the new audacity version today. The program still crashes on first running with: Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 337 (gdk_string_width): assertion `font != NULL' failed.
Hope this helps! Looking at the trace output, I have the suspicion that the font is a redherring - the program seems to have got into some sort of a loop... Looking around, I have found this has happened to other users, eg: http://slax.linux-live.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=52629&sid=221843e76b553608bd12ca611bd56e63 (I tried this - it didn't work). So I suspect there is a bug in audacity somewhere, or a build issue...
You can try to move the .gtkrc* files in your home directory out of the way temporarily. You may run gdb with audacity-debuginfo installed, but I doubt this will give any useful information. Otherwise you should report the bug upstream. I cannot reproduce the bug on my machine...
Good news :-)) Have just updated to the new, new version (1.3.2 beta), and it RUNS!!! Thx for the help.