Audacity 2.05 Crashes Ubuntu 14.04

Question

Hi Audacity is crashing after a few seconds; the cursor slows down noticeably and it then makes a buzzing noise, I hit stop, screen greys out and I have to force quit. The Audacity log reads;

19:53:50: Audacity 2.0.5
19:53:56: Retrieving FFmpeg library version numbers:
19:53:56:    AVCodec version 0x362300 - 54.35.0 (built against 0x362300 - 54.35.0)
19:53:56:    AVFormat version 0x361404 - 54.20.4 (built against 0x361404 - 54.20.4)
19:53:56:    AVUtil version 0x340300 - 52.3.0 (built against 0x340300 - 52.3.0)

I started Audacity from terminal; initially I get this;

(process:3221): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised

(process:3221): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised

(process:3221): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

(process:3221): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736 Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904 Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171 Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840 ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:618:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave

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ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:618:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave Expression 'ret' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1736 Expression 'AlsaOpen( &alsaApi->baseHostApiRep, params, streamDir, &self->pcm )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1904 Expression 'PaAlsaStreamComponent_Initialize( &self->capture, alsaApi, inParams, StreamDirection_In, NULL != callback )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2171 Expression 'PaAlsaStream_Initialize( stream, alsaHostApi, inputParameters, outputParameters, sampleRate, framesPerBuffer, callback, streamFlags, userData )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 2840 Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611 Expression 'stream->playback.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 4611

When it crashes I get

ALSA lib pcm.c:7843:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

This issue is very similar to this one - but I am not running Audacity in Wine.

Soundcard used;

$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xb0000000 irq 40

UPDATE - the following seems to have worked for now; I checked playback devices and My soundcard was not selected; in Audacity >Edit>preferences.... under devices make sure your soundcard is selected; I hope this has fixed it.