This has been happening since 12.04. I used to use timidity to play all of my MIDI files, but now it does not work period. Nothing has changed. It worked on this system before. Now it doesn't.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: timidity 2.13.2-40build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 18 22:20:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: timidity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.timidity.timidity.cfg: 2012-10-18T17:37:54.579421
Do you have a backtrace, either created yourself with gdb or automatically submitted via apport? (apport bugs are private by default, so you may have to make the bug public so I can see it.)
I believe there are instructions on grabbing a backtrace with gdb on the Ubuntu wiki, if you're unfamiliar with how to do this.