I compiled Ardour 2.1 on the current Gutsy Beta. When I launched Ardour and opted to create a new session test001, it did start, but the menu option to add a track was greyed out, as were most of the other options. In addition, when I chose “Add existing audio”, Ardour crashed. What can be wrong here?
Oh, forgot to mention: I have Intel onboard soundcard (i915). I know, I know, kinda lame, but this card did work with the earlier versions of Ardour. Also, while I have Ubuntu’s stock “rt” kernel installed, I didn’t set Jack to run in realtime, since Ardour couldn’t connect to Jack with the realtime option set.
Here’s the not-so-interesting console log just in case:
Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions.
loading default ui configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_default.conf
Configuration::pack_canvasvars () called, canvas_colors.size() = 82
ardour: [INFO]: Loading ui configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui_dark.rc
theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine
loading system configuration file /etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc
ardour: [INFO]: Using SSE optimized routines
ardour: [INFO]: looking for control protocols in /home/temcat/.ardour2/surfaces/:/usr/lib/ardour2/surfaces/
ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: “Mackie”
powermate: Opening of powermate failed - No such file or directory
ardour: [INFO]: Control protocol powermate not usable
ardour: [INFO]: Control surface protocol discovered: “Generic MIDI”
JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
jackd 0.103.0
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver …
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver … hw:0,0|hw:0,0|256|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 256 frames, buffer = 2 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 16bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
loading bindings from /etc/ardour2/ardour.bindings
Loading session . using snapshot test001 (1)
glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
what: basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
aborting…
Aborted (core dumped)
temcat@eden:~$ subgraph starting at ardour timed out (subgraph_wait_fd=14, status = 0, state = Triggered)