Duplicating pattern yields "unknown" as name in Song Editor

[PatDyn]

Hydrogen version * : 1.2.1-1, installed via pamac
Operating system + version : Manjaro and Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
Audio driver + version : Jack, 1.9.22

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How to reproduce:

• Right click on a pattern
• Select Duplicate
• Enter a name in the properties window/ or leave as is
• Click OK
• The duplicated pattern will pop up, labeled "unknown"

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Edit: Confirmed also on Linux Mint 21

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Hmm.. That's strange. I can't reproduce it.

Those anything show up in the log when opening Hydrogen from the command line using hydrogen -VDebug? Does this happen with all pattern names you enter or only with a specific set (maybe some non-ASCII UTF-8 characters)?

Is by any chance your hard disk completely full or your /tmp folder not writable by your user account? From taking a quick look at the code it seems that there might be issues in case Hydrogen fails to write new pattern to the temporary folder.

[PatDyn]

My HDD is not full and the /tmp folder is writeable. :)

[PatDyn]

But i found some info in the logs:

(W) XMLDoc::read XML document [/tmp/hydrogen/HouseSet01.EddSly] is not valid with respect to schema [/usr/local/share/hydrogen/data/xsd/drumkit_pattern.xsd], loading may fail
(W) Pattern::loadDoc Pattern [/tmp/hydrogen/HouseSet01.EddSly] does not validate the current pattern schema. Loading might fail.
(W) Legacy::load_drumkit_pattern this code should not be used anymore, it belongs to 0.9.6
(W) XMLNode::read_child_node XML node pattern->pattern_name should exists.
(W) XMLNode::read_child_node XML node pattern->pattern_name should exists.
(W) XMLNode::read_string Using default value unknown for pattern_name

Edit:
I could reproduce this also in Linux Mint 21 on another machine where i built from source (build date is 2023-08-07).

[theGreatWhiteShark]

But i found some info in the logs:

Nice. Could you upload one of the bricked patterns from /tmp?

[theGreatWhiteShark]

I could reproduce this also in Linux Mint 21 on another machine where i built from source (build date is 2023-08-07).

I tried on both Devuan Chimaera and a clean Fedora 38 and couldn't reproduce it yet.

[PatDyn]

But i found some info in the logs:

Nice. Could you upload one of the bricked patterns from /tmp?

Here you go :)
TechnoSet01.mfSUIP.tar.gz

Funny thing i noticed: The name shows up correctly in the file.

[AVLinux]

This also happens to me on AV Linux 21.3 (based on Debian 11 Bullseye). It only happens sometimes though, as you've noted no guaranteed recipe..

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Here you go :)
TechnoSet01.mfSUIP.tar.gz

That's really weird. This pattern looks just fine, validates the corresponding XSD file, and I'm even able to open it.

Could you append .h2pattern to one of the patterns corresponding to a failed duplication and try to open them using Project > Open Pattern?

This also happens to me on AV Linux 21.3 (based on Debian 11 Bullseye). It only happens sometimes though, as you've noted no guaranteed recipe..

Okay. I'll try again on one of those systems (just duplicated the pattern you posted 40 times without an issue).

[theGreatWhiteShark]

I'm afraid I need some more details in order to reproduce this issue.

I run several live Linux OSs and installed AVLinux, compiled the 1.2.1 version of Hydrogen and duplicated various patterns. But I didn't encounter the problem at all.

Do you experience it on fresh installs using new songs too? Does it maybe occur after using Hydrogen quite a lot or just for large song in terms of patterns? What's the frequency of failing duplication?

[AVLinux]

Hi,

This has happened to me working on a new song a couple of weeks ago, I don't have time for beat making this week but next time I do I will screencapture the session and see if this issue pops up while I'm working and perhaps that will give a clue if it's a sequence of operations thing..

[PatDyn]

Could you append .h2pattern to one of the patterns corresponding to a failed duplication and try to open them using Project > Open Pattern?

Alright. I did just that. Attached .h2pattern to the filename. Opened it via Open Pattern. The result is the same - the pattern name is "unknown".

[PatDyn]

Do you experience it on fresh installs using new songs too? Does it maybe occur after using Hydrogen quite a lot or just for large song in terms of patterns? What's the frequency of failing duplication?

I tried with a fresh song, duplicated the pattern and did not experience this problem.
Using the project i experienced this in, duplicating always results in "unknown" as a pattern name.
That project has 23 patterns in total. I attached the project for further analysis.
PercussionSet-02-r.h2song.zip

[theGreatWhiteShark]

That project has 23 patterns in total. I attached the project for further analysis.
PercussionSet-02-r.h2song.zip

Thanks a lot! This one did it.

I already located the bug: the pattern has "too much" notes. Whenever there are more than 100 notes in a pattern Qt fails to validate against our XSD schema. But just Qt as the XSD defines a max occurrence of 1000 notes and the pattern is valid.

I'll fix it

[theGreatWhiteShark]

@PatDyn could you compile and install the changes in #1842 and check whether this fixes things at your end?

Alternatively, you could just change line 74 in /usr[/local]/share/hydrogen/data/xsd/drumkit_pattern.xsd from

<xsd:element ref="h2:note" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1000"/>

into

<xsd:element ref="h2:note" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

[AVLinux]

Ahhh that makes sense! I think in hindsight it was in pretty busy patterns that this issue popped up.

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Closed with #1842