Hydrogen stopped running (KXStudio 14.04.2) [Solved]

[Quillz]

Hi,

Up until this evening Hydrogen was running fine. Then I tried running it alongside Rosegarden and QSampler and it (hydrogen) crashed. Whenever I try to run it I see the splash-screen then nothing, except 1 xrun gets logged.

I'm running it in KXStudio 14.04.2 64-bit with 3.13.0-101-lowlatency kernel. I'm not sure which version of Hydrogen because I can't run it to find out.

I have uninstalled and purged and then reinstalled it (apt-get) and have the latest version according to that.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[funkmuscle]

that was my problem on Arch and it was the gcc. Reinstalled gcc. fixed.

[Quillz]

Thanks for the replies

I've just got in from work and had time to take a look.

that was my problem on Arch and it was the gcc. Reinstalled gcc. fixed.

Okay. So I did some quick googling and figured you meant do a

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall gcc

. apt-get did its thang and when I attempted to run hydrogen it looked hopeful for a minute - the splash screen really looked like it was thinking about it! - and... computer said "no"

see if removing hydrogen-drumkits fixes the issue.

Similarly, I did a

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sudo apt-get remove hydrogen-drumkits

. apt-get did its thang and again, no go.

Both times I actually ran hydrogen from the terminal (normally use the short-cut in the apps menu) and I noticed this:

"Hydrogen 0.9.6.1 [Aug 7 2016] [http://www.hydrogen-music.org]
Copyright 2002-2008 Alessandro Cominu

Hydrogen 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

Floating point exception"

Just for the record, I have asked this question in the Hydrogen forums and even gave it a couple of days before posting here, but it's had 50 views and no replies.

[English Guy]

Sorry if I am stating the obvious, but have you tried re installing hydrogen itself. I would also try opening a different drum file in case the one you are trying to open is corrupted. If all else fails try removing the configuration files in your home directory in case something was corrupted there when it crashed.

[Quillz]

Hi English Guy

I ran

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apt-get remove --purge hydrogen

which should remove the config files - as far as I'm aware. And then re-installed.

I have right-clicked->open-with->hydrogen on a number of *.h2songs, all to no avail.

[English Guy]

I think you will find configuration files in your home directory are not affected by the --purge option.

EDIT: You will find them at /home/my_username/.hydrogen/

I usually rename rather than delete so they can be restored if they are not the issue.

[English Guy]

I would also try running it from a terminal to see if there is any useful output.

EDIT: When you run it use the --verbose flag.

[Quillz]

Thanks, English Guy. I renamed the hydrogen.conf in /home/username/.hydrogen and that sorted it.

Much appreciated.

[English Guy]

Yay - result

[Quillz]

Dear mods, I noticed other topics had a "solved" tag added to them when they'd been sorted out and I took the liberty of doing so with this one. I hope that's okay

[glowrak guy]

Some forums it's even mandatory, or at least expected, and it's good manners.
It's also nice for people to state solutions they found themselves,
after others tried helping, instead of just vanishing. Sometimes
the search engines find that answer down the road when someone is in need.
A road we all travel on.
Cheers