Comment # 3 on bug 1191585 from Dave Plater

(In reply to Gerry Gavigan from comment #2)
> Audacity 3.0.5 fails in the same way as 3.0.4
> 
> I realise that's not much help but if you tell me how I can generate useful
> information, I'll do my best.

You can run strace audacity > audacity_strace.txt and attach
audacity_strace.txt to the bug.
Meanwhile I'll build a pure debug version to hopefully give a console output.