Tracks randomly going out of sync

Hi.

This is what just happened: I’ve got two acoustic guitar tracks, going into one bus.

I record a mandolin track over the top. I listen to the playback and all is well. Timing is good, and first near-perfect take in days!

Just a couple of off notes, I can fix them by recording another track underneath.

I set fader automation to quieten down the off notes, so I can play over the top of them.

I then set up a new track, select the input in the mixer, press record … and blow me if the mando track hasn’t suddenly gone out of sync.

Desperately I start pressing control-z, to try and get back to the state the track was in when I first recorded it, when it sounded good. But to no avail.

I quit Ardour2, then launch it again … problem still there. Some evil bug has deliberately realigned my track.

This is the second time that’s happened to me. No predictable cause that I can see. Can you?