Installing csladspa causes a segmentation fault on ardour (and probably other ladspa-enabled programs) (when loading the ladspa plugins, of course). The root of the problem is this section from CountCSD (trimmed for clarity): ladspa_path = getenv("LADSPA_PATH"); path = ladspa_path; The problem is that if LADSPA_PATH is unset, getenv returns NULL, std::string tries to call strlen on that (of course, this depends on the std c++ lib implementation), and boom, crash. Safeguarding the path assigning like this fixes the issue: if(ladspa_path != NULL) path = ladspa_path; -- Felipe Sateler