[linux-audio-user] Ardour: trying to add a "bus" causes a crash?

Hello folks ... I've just started working once again on a mix project, after a long break over the summer, and am encountering a problem I don't recall seeing before. When I try to add a bus to the session ("Session -> Add Track/Bus"), it causes Ardour to crash (many thanks to the Ardour developers for adding intelligent crash recovery! I haven't lost any real work thanks to that.) I can add a "track" without any problem, but what I'm after here is a "bus". I _think_ I'm doing this right. The project presently has 16 tracks, and the master bus, and I want to add a bus to use to connect post-fader sends from selected tracks, as an effects bus (with the effect inserted as a pre-fader plugin on the bus). I already have a (not connected) post-fader send on one of my tracks, ready to connect to the bus I'm trying to create. The system is Slackware-10.2 (with a customized kernel, and upgrades as released by Slackware), on an AMD Athlon64 (running in 32-bit mode) with 2GB RAM (no swap used as yet, so I'm not expecting lack of memory to be a problem). I've been running Ardour-0.99.2, but when I encountered this problem I upgraded to Ardour-0.99.3 to see if the upgrade would resolve the problem (it didn't). Jack is jack-0.100.0 (hrmmm... I see new versions of that are available, but it doesn't seem to me as though Jack would be the culprit here; I'll upgrade if it's believed I should, though ...) Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to point me to documentation I should have found (I've already checked the Ardour online manual and "how do I..." forum, but it is of course possible that I missed something that should have jumped out at me), or to tell me there's a better way to get what I'm after (the equivalent of a post-fader "aux" send and return on a hardware mixer). It occurs to me that I can add a stereo track, insert (pre-fader) the plugin I want, connect its output to the master track, and set it to record-enable (all tracks for the project are already recorded, so that won't interfere), and connect the other track sends I want to it. It feels like a work-around, but it might at least permit me to continue ... (comments on this would be appreciated ...) Thanks in advance for any help ... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca Major in Electroacoustic Studies Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts / Music Department Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------