Bug 12936 - Audacity crash when selecting equalizer effect
Summary: Audacity crash when selecting equalizer effect
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 4
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: QA Team
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: MGA4-32-OK mga4-64-ok advisory
Keywords: validated_update
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-03-04 19:19 CET by Daniel Jackson
Modified: 2014-03-06 00:29 CET (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: audacity-2.0.4-3.mga4.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment:


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Description Daniel Jackson 2014-03-04 19:19:06 CET
Problem: Audacity crash instantly (dissapear completly, like close the program, no message no nothing) when selecting equalizer effect.


How reproductible: Every time


Steps to reproduce:

1. Start audacity
2. Load an audio file
3. Select "equalization" from the effect menu


Just to help/speed up the resolving process, i want to mention that i search for this problem and many other people/distros encounter it.
The solution so far was to replace the audacity package with an older one or something like that, probably it is a problem from audacity "guys"...

Thank you.
Comment 1 David Walser 2014-03-04 19:26:43 CET
I wonder if this has any relationship to the ffmpeg issues with audacity (probably not).  Anyway, there is a *newer* version of audacity which was recently packaged for Cauldron (version 2.0.5).

You can try building audacity 2.0.5 from our source RPM and see if that fixes the issue.  If it does, we could backport it as an update.
David Walser 2014-03-04 19:27:34 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge
Source RPM: (none) => audacity-2.0.4-3.mga4.src.rpm

Comment 2 Daniel Jackson 2014-03-04 20:30:43 CET
Well, that would be great, but the problem is i don't know how to do that.
If i knew, i would have probably not even file this bug, instead use another source, compile it, install it, use it :)) and also i would have enter the..."packages team" to add/mantain more software in Mageia because i think that the bigger is the variety of available software in a distro, the better!
It is the main reason i like arch based os's (because of the AUR), other than that, Mageia is my favorite in almost any matter.
Comment 3 José Jorge 2014-03-04 22:49:35 CET
I tested, and audacity 2.0.5 fixes the equalizer bug for me on MGA4.
So I push it to updates_testing.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 4 José Jorge 2014-03-04 22:55:22 CET
I have uploaded a updated package for Mageia 4.

You can test this 
1. Start audacity
2. Load an audio file
3. Select "equalization" from the effect menu

It crashes with 2.0.4, and should not with 2.0.5 .

Suggested advisory:
========================

Updated audacity packages fix a crash along with some other bugfixes.

========================

Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
========================
audacity-2.0.5-1.mga4 i586 and x86_64

Source RPMs: 
audacity-2.0.5-1.mga4.srpm

Assignee: lists.jjorge => qa-bugs

Comment 5 Daniel Jackson 2014-03-04 23:04:06 CET
I have search for the package but there is no 2.0.5, only the 2.0.4 old one.
Comment 6 David Walser 2014-03-04 23:41:28 CET
(In reply to Daniel Jackson from comment #5)
> I have search for the package but there is no 2.0.5, only the 2.0.4 old one.

It's in the updates_testing medium, which isn't enabled by default:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Enabling_the_Testing_media

Status: ASSIGNED => NEW

Comment 7 David Walser 2014-03-04 23:43:50 CET
I'd recommend including a link to the 2.0.5 Release Notes as a reference in the advisory.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.0.5
Comment 8 Manuel Hiebel 2014-03-04 23:47:09 CET
(In reply to Daniel Jackson from comment #5)
> I have search for the package but there is no 2.0.5, only the 2.0.4 old one.

It was pushed at the same time José posted his comment. You may wait a bit until it come into your favourite mirror.
Comment 9 Daniel Jackson 2014-03-04 23:54:35 CET
I did enable core update testing since youre first comment, i also check it now again but it still does not show up, maybe we have to wait a bit more.
Comment 10 Daniel Jackson 2014-03-05 14:55:49 CET
Might be something wrong? it still does not show up in core updates testing
Comment 11 Rémi Verschelde 2014-03-05 15:03:25 CET
It's in distrib-coffee, but maybe your mirror takes time to sync?
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/4/x86_64/media/core/updates_testing/

CC: (none) => remi

Comment 12 Daniel Jackson 2014-03-05 15:41:34 CET
I have enabled all i could find with "core updates testing (distribxx)", i guess that's why i could not find because i was only enabling just one "core updates testing", it's a bit confusing, maybe (distribxx) means different servers.

Anyway, i installed audacity 2.0.5, and so far is working good no matter what i did, no problem noticed so far, no crash no nothing.

Thank you verry much, and i hope it will be "pushed?!" to normal core (no testing) :)
Comment 13 Manuel Hiebel 2014-03-05 15:56:23 CET
to Core Updates when validated, yes.

Hardware: x86_64 => All
Whiteboard: (none) => mga4-64-ok

Comment 14 David Walser 2014-03-05 16:31:55 CET
According to the upstream release notes, this equalizer issue was only 64-bit, so just basic testing on i586 should be sufficient.

(Also just a reminder to include the Release Notes link in the advisory :o)
Comment 15 William Kenney 2014-03-05 16:49:51 CET
In VirtualBox, M4, KDE, 32-bit

Package(s) under test:
audacity

default install of audacity

[root@localhost wilcal]# urpmi audacity
Package audacity-2.0.4-3.mga4.i586 is already installed

Audacity works for me including opening the equalization
function, editing an imported mp3 file, saving the project
then exporting to a newly named file with the equalization
changes.

install audacity from updates_testing

[root@localhost wilcal]# urpmi audacity
Package audacity-2.0.5-1.mga4.i586 is already installed

Audacity works for me here too including opening the equalization
function, editing an imported mp3 file, saving the project
then exporting to a newly named file with the equalization
changes.

Test platform:
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 LGA 1155 MoBo
GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) 1GB
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express 1Gbit Ethernet
DRAM 16GB (4 x 4GB)
Mageia 4 64-bit, Nvidia driver
VirtualBox 4.3.6-1.mga4.x86_64.rpm

CC: (none) => wilcal.int

William Kenney 2014-03-05 16:50:24 CET

Whiteboard: mga4-64-ok => MGA4-32-OK mga4-64-ok

Comment 16 William Kenney 2014-03-05 16:50:56 CET
Then we can push this.
Comment 17 Dave Hodgins 2014-03-05 17:46:07 CET
Advisory added to svn. Validating the update.

Someone from the sysadmin team please push 12936.adv to updates.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: MGA4-32-OK mga4-64-ok => MGA4-32-OK mga4-64-ok advisory
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins, sysadmin-bugs

Comment 18 Thomas Backlund 2014-03-06 00:29:00 CET
Update pushed:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2014-0077.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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