$ audacity 
/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/wxGTK-3.0.3/work/wxWidgets-3.0.3/src/common/unichar.cpp(52): assert "Assert failure" failed in FromHi8bit(): invalid multibyte character
11:35:44: Error: Impossible to get permissions for file '/home/marcoep/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg' (error 2: No such file or directory)
11:35:44: Error: Impossible to get permissions for file '/home/marcoep/.audacity-data/pluginregistry.cfg' (error 2: No such file or directory)
11:35:44: Error: Impossible to get permissions for file '/home/marcoep/.audacity-data/pluginsettings.cfg' (error 2: No such file or directory)
11:35:49: Report generated to: /tmp/audacity_dbgrpt-30666-20180227T113544.zip
Segmentation fault

$ ll -d .audacity-data/
drwxr-xr-x 1 marcoep users 0 Feb 27 11:35 .audacity-data/