Error When Launching Audacity

[G M Slater]

I am running Audacity 2.1.2 on Ubuntu Studio 15.10 32bit and am getting the following error whenever I launch the program:

An assertin failed!
../src/common/menucmn.cpp(310): assert "wxIsStockID(GetId())" failed in SetItemLabel(): A non-stock menu item with an empty label?

If I select BackTrace I get the following:

BACKTRACE:
[1] wxMenuItemBase::SetItemLabel(wxString const&)
[2] wxMenuItemBase::wxMenuItemBase(wxMenu*, int, wxString const&, wxString const&, wxItemKind, wxMenu*)
[3] wxMenuItem::wxMenuItem(wxMenu*, int, wxString const&, wxString const&, wxItemKind, wxMenu*)
[4] wxMenuItemBase::New(wxMenu*, int, wxString const&, wxString const&, wxItemKind, wxMenu*)
[5] CommandManager::AddItem(wchar_t const*, wchar_t const*, CommandFunctor*, wchar_t const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, int)
[6] CommandManager::AddItem(wchar_t const*, wchar_t const*, CommandFunctor*, unsigned int, unsigned int)
[7] AudacityProject::AddEffectMenuItemGroup(CommandManager*, wxArrayString const&, wxArrayString const&, wxArrayInt const&, bool)
[8] AudacityProject::AddEffectMenuItems(CommandManager*, EffectPlugs&, int, int, bool)
[9] AudacityProject::PopulateEffectsMenu(CommandManager*, EffectType, int, int)
[10] AudacityProject::CreateMenusAndCommands()
[11] AudacityProject::AudacityProject(wxWindow*, int, wxPoint const&, wxSize const&)
[12] CreateNewAudacityProject()
[13] AudacityApp::OnInit()
[14] wxEntry(int&, wchar_t**)
[15] wxEntry(int&, char**)
[16] main
[17] __libc_start_main
[18] _start

If I select OK the program launches and functions normally. Has anyone encountered this before?

[G M Slater]

yes, known bug.
I can't find the link, but it has been reported to the debian maintainers.
it's something to do with audacity being built with gtk3 variant of wxwidgets instead of gtk2.

Thank you for the information!