Ardour Segmentation fault- won't start at all!

[Alexandros Bitoulas]

Allright guys, 

I have just fixed the problem...with a trial and error method! 

I started unistalling one-by-one the packages that I have installed the last 3 
days and I kept testing if ardour could launch each time I uninstalled 
something.

When I uninstalled "pavucontrol" ardour launched perfectly!! I also 
uninstalled with autoremove "libcanberra-gtk-module" and "libcanberra-gtk0" 
that pavucontrol automatically installed and which might caused the problem in 
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.4, as syslog was informing me whenever I launched 
ardour.

Thank you all for your help and time!

Best regards,

Alex


On Tuesday 31 of May 2011 01:03:36 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 00:56 +0300, Alexandros Bitoulas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Monday 30 of May 2011 11:01:56 Gustin Johnson wrote:
> > > Is your disk full?  "df -h" should tell you.
> > 
> > No, my disks are not full, I just checked them.
> > 
> > > You may also want to remove the .deb that is cached in
> > > /var/cache/apt/archive before you reinstall.
> > 
> > I tried it, but no improvement.
> > 
> > > Is there anything in /var/log/syslog that shows up at the same time
> > > you try to run ardour?
> > 
> > But yes, I found this on syslog whenever I try to run ardour:
> > 
> > May 31 00:40:18 Kubuntu-pc kernel: [19300.148249] ardour-2.8.11[4134]:
> > segfault at 50 ip 00007f3d8b788d1c sp 00007fff7c3d4f80 error 4 in libgtk-
> > x11-2.0.so.0.2400.4[7f3d8b599000+436000]
> > 
> > Could somebody guess what to do with this? Should I try reinstalling
> > something?
> > 
> > Also, I just remembered that the day that the problem started with ardour
> > I had installed 3 gstreamer plugins that the system notified me to do in
> > order to optimize Amarok's performance. It described them as ugly, bad
> > and super bad correspondingly as far as I can remember. Do you think
> > that it could have something to do with ardour not launching? If yes how
> > can I see which particularly plugins I have installed in order to remove
> > them?
> > 
> > Thank you all! Any ideas?
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> I'm subscribed to Ardour users mailing list. I recommend that you do the
> same ;).
> 
> http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-users-ardour.org
> 
> More shots in the dark just would lead into the wrong direction.
> 
> 2 Cents,
> 
> Ralf