banshee freezes/hangs on startup

[Chris Vigelius]

When starting banshee, a black window flashes in the front, which after a short time turns transparent, but does not react to clicks or anything else. After that, nothing happens, banshee hangs but does not cause any CPU or disk or network activity.

This bug appears with banshee 2.0.0 from the regular natty (11.04) repo, as well as with banshee 2.1.3 from ppa:banshee-team/banshee-daily.

I tried removing/renaming ~/.config/banshee-1 and/or ~/.cache/banshee-1, but this does NOT change the problem.

Attachments:
- output of banshee --debug

Please let me know if you need further information or if I should try something specific. I will leave every config etc. as it is for now and use another player instead, in order to help with resolving this bug.

[Chris Vigelius (chris-vigelius)]

From the strace it seems that banshee is trying to read from socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 endlessly (see line #3508 and following in attached strace)

[Chris Vigelius (chris-vigelius)]

Don't know whether this is relevant or not, but sending SIGQUIT to banshee (as suggested in http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/) causes the attached stack trace to be written to the terminal. There is no ~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.log file generated, but that may be because I'm running with --debug already.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas Zahreddin (thomas-zahreddin)]

very similar beahvior:

banshee freezes after playing some titles or crashes right after start.

My suspense is (for my machine) this bug happens if i try to access a file, which is deleted on disk - but not in the media lib of banshee.

My console output:
 % banshee --debug
** Running Mono with --debug **
[1 Info 17:15:10.943] Running Banshee 2.0.1: [Ubuntu 11.04 (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2011-07-03 20:56:56 UTC]
[1 Debug 17:15:11.046] Initializing GTK
[1 Debug 17:15:13.022] Post-Initializing GTK
[1 Debug 17:15:13.047] Configuration client extension loaded (Banshee.GnomeBackend.GConfConfigurationClient)
[1 Debug 17:15:13.053] Using default gconf-base-key
[1 Debug 17:15:13.077] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with PrimaryOwner
[1 Debug 17:15:13.128] Core service started (DBusServiceManager, 0,000804)
[1 Debug 17:15:13.129] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/DBusCommandService (Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusCommandService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 17:15:13.136] Core service started (DBusCommandService, 0,00778)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.433] Opened SQLite (version 3.7.4) connection to /home/thomas/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db
[1 Debug 17:15:20.433] Core service started (DbConnection, 7,297388)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.438] Database version 43 is up to date
[1 Debug 17:15:20.448] Running ANALYZE against database to improve performance
[1 Info 17:15:20.676] Starting collection of anonymous usage data
[1 Debug 17:15:20.724] Core service started (PreferenceService, 0,025808)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.729] Core service started (Network, 0,004203)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.729] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/SourceManager (Banshee.Sources.SourceManager) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 17:15:20.729] Core service started (SourceManager, 0,000404)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.735] Core service started (MediaProfileManager, 0,000139)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.745] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine (Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 17:15:20.746] Core service started (PlayerEngine, 0,011041)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.791] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlaybackController (Banshee.PlaybackController.PlaybackControllerService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 17:15:20.791] Core service started (PlaybackController, 0,001865)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.796] Starting - Startup Job
[1 Debug 17:15:20.797] Core service started (JobScheduler, 0,005399)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.806] IO provider extension loaded (Banshee.IO.Gio.Provider)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.835] Loaded HardwareManager backend: Banshee.Hardware.Gio
[1 Debug 17:15:20.836] Core service started (HardwareManager, 0,039246)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.837] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer') replied with PrimaryOwner
[1 Debug 17:15:20.838] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/CollectionIndexerService (Banshee.Collection.Indexer.CollectionIndexerService) on org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer
[1 Debug 17:15:20.839] Core service started (CollectionIndexerService, 0,002954)
[1 Debug 17:15:20.840] Core service started (SaveTrackMetadataService, 0,001045...