[LAU] Audacity on Ubuntu 14.04 is REALLY unstable

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:07:13 -0400
Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I took Audacity out of apt and wow is it unstable.  Constantly
> hanging.  At least it is able to recover most of the time after a
> restart - except for once last night where I lost my LP rip.  It was
> bearable before then but now I want a better solution.
> 
> Is anyone else having this problem?
> Any solution in mind?
> Should I pull down one of the daily builds from Audacity and try it?
> Or build from source or something?
> 
> My Ubuntu is fully updated.
> 
> I was also thinking of trying CentOS7 to see how that does.
> 
> thanks,
> -Alan

Hi Alan,

are the crashes reproducible? Is there any pattern to the crashes?
What is your configuration (record/play through PA, ALSA, jack)?
What sort of work do you do? What sort of operations? Do you have
massive file sizes?

Regards,
Philipp