Audacity won't start

$ audacity 
Testing for explicit PulseAudio choice...
Testing for ALSA permissions...
...and using ALSA.

(process:91517): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 21:06:15.945: IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(process:91517): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 21:06:15.945: _gdk_pixmap_new: assertion '(drawable != NULL) || (depth != -1)' failed
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/gtk/bitmap.cpp(827): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in ConvertToImage(): invalid bitmap
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/common/image.cpp(2172): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in SetMaskColour(): invalid image
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/common/image.cpp(2223): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in SetMask(): invalid image
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/common/image.cpp(1853): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in GetWidth(): invalid image
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/common/image.cpp(1860): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in GetHeight(): invalid image
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/common/image.cpp(2112): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in GetAlpha(): invalid image
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/common/image.cpp(2232): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in HasMask(): invalid image
/root/.conan/data/wxwidgets/3.1.3.1-audacity/_/_/build/e419d9154337f54ac2c5cc53c5142e9073a52daa/source_subfolder/src/common/image.cpp(1986): assert ""IsOk()"" failed in GetData(): invalid image

(process:91517): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: 21:06:15.945: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data: assertion 'data != NULL' failed

(process:91517): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 21:06:15.945: IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(process:91517): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 21:06:15.946: IA__gdk_drawable_get_display: assertion 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

(process:91517): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 21:06:15.946: IA__gdk_cursor_new_from_pixbuf: assertion 'GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed

(process:91517): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 21:06:15.946: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
$ snap info audacity 
name:      audacity
summary:   Audio software for multi-track recording and editing
publisher: Daniel Llewellyn (diddledani)
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/audacity
contact:   https://github.com/diddlesnaps/audacity/issues
license:   unset
description: |
  Audacity® is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X,
  GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.
  
  You can use Audacity to:
  * Record live audio
  * Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
  * Edit WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP2, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis sound files
  * Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together
  * Change the speed or pitch of a recording
  * Apply a wide range of other effects to audio recordings
  
  Upstream Project: https://www.audacityteam.org/
  snapcraft.yaml Build Definition:
  https://github.com/diddlesnaps/audacity/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml
commands:
  - audacity
snap-id:      KTe2wdAu5JKdRDUgYBuXXGjDXyzobvFI
tracking:     latest/stable
refresh-date: today at 21:00 EDT
channels:
  latest/stable:    3.1.3 2022-02-24 (971) 195MB -
  latest/candidate: 3.1.3 2022-02-24 (971) 195MB -
  latest/beta:      ↑                            
  latest/edge:      3.1.3 2022-04-20 (991) 195MB -
installed:          3.1.3            (971) 195MB -

Edge channel worked.

well, there is a contact url pointing to an issue tracker in the snap info output … did you consider using that ?

Just did

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