Ardour Segmentation fault- won't start at all!

[Gustin Johnson]

How did you do the reinstall?  Try purging the current install and
then reinstall Ardour.

I had similar issues with Ardour once that turned out to be a bad
stick of RAM.  You may want to consider running memtest on your
computer.

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Alexandros Bitoulas
<albitoulas at yahoo.gr> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 of May 2011 23:30:36 Mike Holstein wrote:
>> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Alexandros Bitoulas
> <albitoulas at yahoo.gr>wrote:
>> > Hello to everyone!
>> >
>> > I am using Kubuntu 11.04 (fresh install, added single audio packages
>> > needed)
>> > on my pc where I have been able to work perfectly with my guitar (rakarak
>> > and
>> > record in ardour with generic kernel) until some days ago.
>> >
>> > However, since the last two days I cannot start Ardour! AFAIK, I haven't
>> > done
>> > something that could cause this problem. From the terminal I get only
>> > this output.
>> >
>> > alex at Kubuntu-pc:~$ ardour2
>> > Ardour 2.8.11
>> >
>> >   (built using 7387 and GCC version 4.5.1)
>> >
>> > Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Paul Davis
>> > Some portions Copyright (C) Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren, Joel
>> > Baker
>> >
>> > Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
>> > not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>> > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>> > under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions.
>> > Segmentation fault
>> > alex at Kubuntu-pc:~$
>> >
>> > I searched on the internet and haven't found something about it...I don't
>> > even
>> > know with what it could be related with or what caused it!
>> >
>> > I want to note that everything else works perfectly (Jack, Rakarack).
>> >
>> > Could somebody provide some help, guidelines or any information? Does
>> > anyone
>> > has/had the same proble with Natty?
>> >
>> > Thank you all in advance,
>> >
>> > Alex
>>
>> try reinstalling ardour... there should be an .ardour2 directory in your
>> /home, try moving or renaming it and see if that fixes it...
>>
> MIke,
>
> I have already reinstalled Ardour an hour ago but nothing happened. I have
> also tried your idea renaming and moving the whole folder, but I still get the
> same message in my terminal and Ardour wont start at all!
>
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