On 2015年05月01日 08時36分, Geoff wrote: > I don't make much use of audacity, and have not tested extensively. Starting > from an xterm on my i686, fully patched, system, I see the error, but the > program runs and appears to function normally. I see a lot of other errors in > the xterm - but they don't appear to be wxgtk related, and they may well have > been there and unnoticed before. Thank you for checking. You gave me just enough self-doubt to try a few more things, and I ended up finding an audacity instance that had failed to close. Audacity seems to limit itself to a single instance, which created the illusion of immediately exiting. Errors notwithstanding, I consider the issue solved.