Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-05-17 Thread Will Godfrey
On Wed, 15 May 2019 20:00:37 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: >On 5/15/19 2:36 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> My understanding is that nullptr is the 'modern' replacement for NULL, so I >> can't see why it would fail. > > It is. > > In this case, the older version of QSharedPointer provides no way for

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-05-15 Thread Ted Felix
On 5/15/19 2:36 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: My understanding is that nullptr is the 'modern' replacement for NULL, so I can't see why it would fail. It is. In this case, the older version of QSharedPointer provides no way for the compiler to convert a nullptr (which is actually a nullptr_t)

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-05-15 Thread Ted Felix
On 5/15/19 2:36 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: Just tried to compile this, and it fails with the report: error: no match for ‘operator=’ (operand types are ‘QSharedPointer’ and ‘std::nullptr_t’) m_baseStyle = nullptr; Should be fixed in [r15493]. Ted.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-05-15 Thread Ted Felix
On 5/15/19 2:36 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: Just tried to compile this, and it fails with the report: error: no match for ‘operator=’ (operand types are ‘QSharedPointer’ and ‘std::nullptr_t’) m_baseStyle = nullptr; Looks like you may have an older version of the Qt5 development stuff. 5.7 and

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-05-15 Thread Will Godfrey
On Sun, 12 May 2019 19:51:54 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: >On 5/3/19 5:06 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> I haven't forgotten this - I'm still totally bogged down with work on >> Yoshimi. >> There is a *lot* going on! > > Just pushed r15492 which was a memory access issue related to >deleting segments

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-05-12 Thread Ted Felix
On 5/3/19 5:06 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: I haven't forgotten this - I'm still totally bogged down with work on Yoshimi. There is a *lot* going on! Just pushed r15492 which was a memory access issue related to deleting segments and the segment parameter box. This may have fixed the problem.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-19 Thread Will Godfrey
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:42:42 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: >On 4/8/19 3:56 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> I'm afraid I've still not had time to do anything with this - not fired up >> the >> DAW at all lately - to much other stuff getting in the way :( > > I've updated the instructions for getting a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-17 Thread Ted Felix
On 4/8/19 3:56 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: I'm afraid I've still not had time to do anything with this - not fired up the DAW at all lately - to much other stuff getting in the way :( I've updated the instructions for getting a stack trace on the wiki.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-11 Thread david
Yes. Remembering also that even a good power supply running too long on a below-normal voltage source can be damaged by that over time. Also keep in mind the mortal enemy of all computers and electronics: heat. Over time, that bakes the life out of electronic components like capacitors and

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 4/10/19 3:52 AM, Sami Jumppanen wrote: For dying computer owners: before upgrading anything, use a known good PSU. That's a thought. Just because I put a good PSU in a couple years ago doesn't mean the PSU isn't the issue now. I don't remember what it is, but it's a ridiculously high

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 4/10/19 8:54 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I guess you mean a retail desktop without Windows off the shelf? No, I mean a retail desktop anything off the shelf. Nobody stocks them anymore. It's all laptops and all-in-ones, peppered with the occasional ridiculous "gaming PC" that has

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 4/9/19 4:55 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: Is there nothing like that where you are? There is, but my father made a scene, and I'm not welcome there anymore. They wouldn't take back a laptop they ordered for Dad, so he said, "Can I smash it on the counter then?" They gave the go ahead, and he

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 4/9/19 7:49 AM, Sami Jumppanen wrote: Out of curiosity, what is the problem? I have no idea. I'm in the middle of typing, and then the computer is just frozen rock solid. When I get it back up, there's a good chance X11 or Weyland or whatever I'm using will be broken to a point where I

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, April 09, 2019 04:37:15 AM D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > I had gotten in the habit of just buying a retail desktop PC off the > shelf, but you can't buy those anymore. I guess you mean a retail desktop without Windows off the shelf? ___

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread Ted Felix
On 4/8/19 3:56 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: My guess is that the delete operation has left an invalid pointer somewhere. There are definitely bad pointers left around in the code. Intentionally. (!?) See the comments in SequenceManager::segmentDeleted(). If, as I explain there, the memory

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread Sami Jumppanen
For dying computer owners: before upgrading anything, use a known good PSU. I just lost a week worth of late nights trying to set up a new computer. I deducted that it was the PSU on the nearly functional computer that had caused CPU failure, by having something else than DC voltage. On the

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread david
On 4/7/19 9:56 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:18:27 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: On 3/28/19 6:24 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: Not forgotten this - just busy firefighting yoshimi :( No problem. I've been working my way through everything valgrind is showing me to see if I can find

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread David W. Jones
On April 9, 2019 1:49:22 AM HST, Sami Jumppanen wrote: > Out of curiosity, what is the problem? > > > > >I had gotten in the habit of just buying a retail desktop PC off > the > > >shelf, but you can't buy those anymore. Getting Linux onto a > retail > > >Windows PC is a huge pain in the

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-10 Thread david
On 4/8/19 10:37 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: I haven't tested the timing thing either.  My computer keeps freezing. When I reboot it, I'm stuck at 1024x768, and the only way I have managed to make progress on that issue is to reinstall Kubuntu.  I've been around that bush three times now,

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-09 Thread Sami Jumppanen
Out of curiosity, what is the problem? > >I had gotten in the habit of just buying a retail desktop PC off the > >shelf, but you can't buy those anymore. Getting Linux onto a retail > >Windows PC is a huge pain in the ass anyway. I guess I have to go > >figure out what components to buy and

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-09 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
I haven't tested the timing thing either. My computer keeps freezing. When I reboot it, I'm stuck at 1024x768, and the only way I have managed to make progress on that issue is to reinstall Kubuntu. I've been around that bush three times now, and I have grown tired of the aggravation. This

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-08 Thread Will Godfrey
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:18:27 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: >On 3/28/19 6:24 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> Not forgotten this - just busy firefighting yoshimi :( > > No problem. I've been working my way through everything valgrind is >showing me to see if I can find your crashes. Nothing yet. Lots

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-04-02 Thread david
On 3/28/19 4:18 PM, Ted Felix wrote: On 3/28/19 6:24 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: Not forgotten this - just busy firefighting yoshimi :(   No problem.  I've been working my way through everything valgrind is showing me to see if I can find your crashes.  Nothing yet.  Lots of memory leaks, but

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-03-28 Thread Ted Felix
On 3/28/19 6:24 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: Not forgotten this - just busy firefighting yoshimi :( No problem. I've been working my way through everything valgrind is showing me to see if I can find your crashes. Nothing yet. Lots of memory leaks, but nothing crashy. Ted.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-03-25 Thread Will Godfrey
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 21:30:31 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: >On 3/23/19 5:27 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: >> Typically 3-4 minutes 8-12 tracks MIDI only. >> >> Most commonly happens when splitting a track then deleting part of it. Actual >> crash usually happens next time I go to 'Play'. > > Ok, thanks.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-03-24 Thread Ted Felix
On 3/23/19 5:27 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: Typically 3-4 minutes 8-12 tracks MIDI only. Most commonly happens when splitting a track then deleting part of it. Actual crash usually happens next time I go to 'Play'. Ok, thanks. I'll see if I can reproduce with these sorts of edits. Had a look

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-03-23 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 3/23/19 5:27 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: Yoshimi - gdb was no help at all and we found the problem by simply undoing commits till we found the one where it changed :( Some bug has existed in some form since Richard Bown implemented track deletion, so we'd have to roll back to the commit

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-03-23 Thread Will Godfrey
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:07:43 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: > > First would be to characterize the editing you are doing. Just a >list of the sorts of things, like track deletes that seem to cause the >issue. Also, how big are the compositions? Number of segments, tracks. > How many minutes?

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes :(

2019-03-20 Thread Ted Felix
On 3/20/19 4:53 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: There seems to be a memory allocation problem that is triggered by deleting tracks/sections. This has been there for quite a long time, but it has only been a real problem for me lately because I'm doing a lot of quite heavy editing, and have to resort to

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes when resizing audio segment

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Desjardins
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Chris Cannam can...@all-day-breakfast.com wrote: I had a quick try and couldn't reproduce this.  Can you try running Rosegarden under a debugger and asking for a stack trace? i.e. $ gdb /usr/bin/rosegarden                 (or wherever it lives) (gdb) run    

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes when resizing audio segment

2011-06-24 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Friday, June 24, 2011, Peter Desjardins wrote: I can arrange segments and play them without problems. However, when I hold down shift and drag to resize, Rosegarden instantly crashes. I can repeat this every time. Is there another configuration problem that might be causing the crashes?

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crashes when resizing audio segment

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Desjardins
Thank you for your work on Rosegarden, it's a wonderful program. Let me know if I can help when you do get a chance. Is there a more stable way to do what I am trying to do? I want to arrange a sequence of samples, snippets of music and drum sounds. Would most people use a separate sequencing