Bugzilla – Bug 2597
Freeze / crash on record to new / append record
Last modified: 2020-11-30 12:46:07 UTC
Testing with Audacity 3.0.0 045bedf On attempting to append record, an empty window appears (believed to be the crash report window) and Audacity fails to respond, but the cursor is still moving across the screen as if recording. If Audacity was launched from a terminal window, "Segmentation fault" is reported. Force quit is required. On attempting to record to new track, there is no crash but Audacity immediately stops recording. No audio is recorded. There is no segmentation fault in this case. The bug happens regardless of the selected device and occurs with both PulseAudio and ALSA. (Audacity 2.4.2 still records reliably on this machine). This is a recent regression.
Also crashes on W10 with Audacity 3.0.0 045bedf So assume all platforms (I'll test on Mac shortly_
Crashes on Mac too.
On W10 this does not crash with 7edbad3 (which I happen to have lyimg on my desktop from other testing). So this is a fairly recent regression on earlier 3.0.0 alphas (I have not bisected this)
Fixed at 8e28a257a5febb72f456c6bcc024ff458de3bd2d
(In reply to Paul L from comment #4) Tested on W10 with Audacity 3.0.0 262dbab No crash at Steps4-5, appended recording starts properly. Also tested Record New Track at Step 4 - also works OK
(In reply to Paul L from comment #4) Tested on macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur with Audacity 3.0.0 262dbab Alos works properly on Mac
Works for me on Linux.
