On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Douglas Regehr <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is similar to the problem I was having a few weeks ago.  My session
> fails to load.  The progress bar gets stuck at 78% and then non-daw
> eventually crashes.  I've attached my history file, a gdb trace, and the
> console output from non-daw.
>

You're getting pretty good at this.


> The problem happened while I was "comping" together a number of takes.  I
> do this by creating a new take, and ctrl-dragging regions from other takes
> into the new take, resizing them and crossfading them to suit.  I think I
> was resizing a region when the session suddenly stopped responding to
> input, there was a big spike in cpu usage during which I struggle and
> eventually succeeded in clicking "close" in NSM, and then eventually
> non-daw crashed.  Since then I have not been able to re-load the session.
>

I take it that you were doing this with the transport stopped?


>
> I tried building and running the latest version (after modifying the
> wscript file to let me build with cairo 1.10...is that bad?) to see if that
> made a difference but it didn't.
>

I'm just surprised it worked. I thought cairo_region_t was introduced in
1.12. I'll lower the requirement.


>
> I was able to work-around the problem by renaming the snapshot file.  So I
> guess the snapshot was corrupt but the history seems ok...
>
> Doug
>


The backtrace... Is this from attempting to load the crashed session later?
Was it hung at the time or is this from a core dump?

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