Hello, I easily freeeze with audacity; here is one of the easiest scenario leading to freeze. ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -1- launch audacity from gnome menu. -2- from audacity, open wav file : /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/share/gallery/sounds/glasses.wav -3- play-using the large PLAY button (it works) -4- change play speed to minimum, then play (it works) -5- play using the small play button besides the ruler enabling to change speed - Audacity freezes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is more : -1- kill -9 the audacity process -2- launch audacity again and don't accept "recover from crash". -3- reopen the previous file. The appearance of the sound file has changed (from the first opening): many red lines (maximum amplitude reached) appear. Nonetheless the file appears to have the same acces rights (read only) and date in the file system. ls -l /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/share/gallery/sounds/glasses.wav -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36270 26 mai 2010 /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/share/gallery/sounds/glasses.wav but main problem is freeze....---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My configuration is : KERNEL : sf@quad:~$ uname -a Linux quad 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 03:59:20 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux ------------------------------------------------ AUDACITY which audacity /usr/bin/audacity dpkg --status audacity Package: audacity Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 7444 Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers < pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.3.12-6 Depends: audacity-data (= 1.3.12-6), libasound2 (>> 1.0.18), libc6 (>= 2.7), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libflac++6 (>= 1.2.1), libflac8 (>= 1.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libid3tag0 (>= 0.15.1b), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b-3), libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libsamplerate0, libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libsoundtouch1c2 (>= 1.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), libtwolame0, libvamp-hostsdk3, libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.1.2), libwxbase2.8-0 (>= 2.8.10.1), libwxgtk2.8-0 (>= 2.8.10.1) Recommends: libavcodec52 | libavcodec-extra-52, libavformat52 | libavformat-extra-52 Suggests: ladspa-plugin, libmp3lame0 Description: A fast, cross-platform audio editor Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio. Audacity features digital effects and spectrum analysis tools. Editing is very fast and provides unlimited undo/redo. . Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and AU. Homepage: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------ LIBC sf@quad:~$ ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 25 juil. 22:45 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.11.2.so ------------------------------------------ HARDWARE My h/w configuration is : Asus P5KC mother board with 8Go of DDR-2 RAM I also have a ALSA: default sound card for Playing (the sound card embedded in the mother board is used for playing sound. And Record with M Audio Audiophile 24/96: ICE1712 multi (hw:2,0) But not in use when freezing, as far as I only PLAY sound, here.-----------end of bug report ----------------