I've tried a number of ideas without success, tried compiling audacity from source, tried installing an older version (2.0.0-1), tried manually installing the libmad0 package suggested in the comment above, and I still get the same behaviour. Jack server is not running or cannot be started I get the following error appear on the terminal screen for several seconds before it reboots:ĪLSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ĪLSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ĪLSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ĪLSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957: (snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback streamĪLSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slaveĬannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Using crouton to run Ubuntu, I have installed the xfce target for quantal (I tried a number of other targets and releases, but am using this one on the advice in this thread) I'm running on a Samsung ARM Chromebook (Model XE303C12-A01US, brand new as of two weeks ago). 1 Compiling Audacity 2 ALSA and other sound systems 2.1 Configuration errors 2. I have also been having my Chromebook reboot when I start Audacity.

Audacity for chromebook