banshee user interface won't appear in 11.10

[Lucas Partridge]

When I try to start banshee from the sound menu nothing appears to happen and ps confirms no banshee processes start.

When I start it from a terminal all I get is:

~$ banshee
[Info 20:24:43.144] Running Banshee 2.2.1: [Ubuntu 11.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-12-19 14:51:26 UTC]

- nothing else. With debug:

~$ banshee --debug
** Running Mono with --debug **
[1 Info 20:25:16.603] Running Banshee 2.2.1: [Ubuntu 11.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-12-19 14:51:26 UTC]
[1 Debug 20:25:16.617] Initializing GTK

- nothing else. With sudo:

~$ sudo banshee
[sudo] password for lucas:
[Info 20:26:19.815] Running Banshee 2.2.1: [Ubuntu 11.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-12-19 14:51:26 UTC]
[Warn 20:26:20.583] DBus support could not be started. Disabling for this session. - System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: address (in `dbus-sharp')
  at DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
System.Exception: Unable to open the session message bus. (in `dbus-sharp')
  at DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at DBus.BusG.Init () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusConnection.Connect (System.String serviceName, Boolean init) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusConnection.Connect (System.String serviceName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Info 20:26:21.359] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Warn 20:26:21.436] Caught an exception - System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: address (in `dbus-sharp')
  at DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Warn 20:26:21.436] Extension `Banshee.SoundMenu.SoundMenuService' not started: Unable to open the session message bus.
[Warn 20:26:21.438] Caught an exception - System.ApplicationException: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached. (in `Banshee.MultimediaKeys')
  at Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService.Banshee.ServiceStack.IExtensionService.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.StartExtension (Mono.Addins.TypeExtensionNode node) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Warn 20:26:21.438] Extension `Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService' not started: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached.

(Banshee:13053): Gtk-WARNING **: Refusing to add non-unique action 'CloseAction' to action group 'Global'
[Warn 20:26:21.470] Caught an exception - System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: address (in `dbus-sharp')
  at DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Warn 20:26:21.470] Extension `Banshee.SoundMenu.SoundMenuService' not started: Unable to open the session message bus.
[Warn 20:26:21.471] Caught an exception - System.ApplicationException: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached. (in `Banshee.MultimediaKeys')
  at Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService.Banshee.ServiceStack.IExtensionService.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.StartExtension (Mono.Addins.TypeExtensionNode node) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Warn 20:26:21.471] Extension `Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService' not started: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached.
[Info 20:26:21.473] All services are started 0.8867
[Info 20:26:21.877] AmazonMP3 store redirect URL: https://one.ubuntu.com/music/store/amz/
[Info 20:26:22.177] nereid Client Started
[Info 20:26:22.280] GStreamer version 0.10.35.0, gapless: True, replaygain: False

- only with sudo does the banshee user interface appear.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it several times but this appears to make no difference. How do I get the banshee UI to appear from the sound menu please without the need for a terminal or sudo?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: banshee 2.2.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic-pae 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 2 20:21:01 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (111 days ago)

[Lucas Partridge (oakwing)]

Googling for "Unable to unregister DBus object Banshee.PlayQueue.PlayQueueSource, does not appear to be registered" I came across https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/637347. However, running with --disable-dbus appeared to make no difference:

~$ banshee --disable-dbus
[Info 20:34:45.299] Running Banshee 2.2.1: [Ubuntu 11.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-12-19 14:51:26 UTC]

[Lucas Partridge (oakwing)]

Removing ~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db made no apparent difference.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

It sounds like it might have hung while initializing Gtk, which I haven't seen
before.

Could you follow the instructions at http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/ to
force Banshee to dump a stacktrace into the terminal and post it here please?

  status incomplete

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[Lucas Partridge (oakwing)]

Done. Here's the stacktrace that was in the terminal:

~$ banshee
[Info 21:52:43.959] Running Banshee 2.2.1: [Ubuntu 11.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-12-19 14:51:26 UTC]
Full thread dump:

"<unnamed thread>" tid=0x0xb761ab60 this=0x0x56f18 thread handle 0x403 state : not waiting owns ()
  at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.Skip () <0x0000a>
  at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.SkipToValue (string) <0x00063>
  at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.ReadValue (string) <0x00013>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.FileDatabase.ReadObject (string,Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlTypeMap) <0x0006b>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinHostIndex.Read (Mono.Addins.Database.FileDatabase,string) <0x0001f>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinDatabase.GetAddinHostIndex () <0x00087>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinDatabase.GetAddinForHostAssembly (string,string) <0x0007f>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinRegistry.GetAddinForHostAssembly (string) <0x0003f>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinEngine.CheckHostAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly) <0x000c3>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinEngine.ActivateRoots () <0x00043>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinEngine.Initialize (System.Reflection.Assembly,string,string,string) <0x0018f>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize (string) <0x00043>
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.InitializeAddins () <0x0003f>
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.DefaultInitialize () <0x00013>
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.Application.Initialize () <0x0000b>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Initialize (bool) <0x0003b>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor (bool,string) <0x00023>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor () <0x00017>
  at Nereid.Client..ctor () <0x00013>
  at (wrapper runtime-invoke) object.runtime_invoke_void__this__ (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.InternalInvoke (System.Reflection.MonoCMethod,object,object[],System.Exception&) <0xffffffff>
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (object,System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Reflection.Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo) <0x00197>
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Reflection.Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo) <0x00024>
  at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (object[]) <0x00042>
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type,bool) <0x001c3>
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type) <0x00013>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () <0x00017>
  at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup/StartupInvocationHandler) <0x00087>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup<T> () <0x00073>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup<T> (string[]) <0x000eb>
  at Nereid.Client.Main (string[]) <0x00017>
  at (wrapper runtime-invoke) <Module>.runtime_invoke_void_object (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.AppDomain,System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) <0xffffffff>
  at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssemblyInternal (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) <0x0003b>
  at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string,System.Security.Policy.Evidence,string[]) <0x00027>
  at (wr...

[Lucas Partridge (oakwing)]

FYI The contents of ~/Desktop/banshee.log after running

kill -s QUIT $(pidof banshee); cp ~/.config/banshee-1/log ~/Desktop/banshee.log

were:

exec -a banshee mono /usr/lib/banshee/Banshee.exe --redirect-log --play-enqueued

[Info 19:25:48.677] Running Banshee 2.2.1: [Ubuntu 11.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-12-19 14:51:26 UTC]

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On 04/02/2012 05:55, Lucas Partridge wrote:
> Done. Here's the stacktrace that was in the terminal:

Weird, that stacktrace doesn't look like a place where it would usually hang.
Could you wait a little longer before sending the SIGQUIT to Banshee and see if
you get a different stack trace?

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[Lucas Partridge (oakwing)]

Last time I generated the stacktrace a few seconds after starting banshee. This time I left it running for about 5 minutes before dumping the trace. It looks pretty similar to the one above to me:

~$ banshee
[Info 14:06:55.600] Running Banshee 2.2.1: [Ubuntu 11.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-12-19 14:51:26 UTC]
Full thread dump:

"<unnamed thread>" tid=0x0xb74fbb60 this=0x0x56f18 thread handle 0x403 state : not waiting owns ()
  at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.Skip () <0x0000e>
  at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.SkipToValue (string) <0x00063>
  at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.ReadValue (string) <0x00013>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.FileDatabase.ReadObject (string,Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlTypeMap) <0x0006b>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinHostIndex.Read (Mono.Addins.Database.FileDatabase,string) <0x0001f>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinDatabase.GetAddinHostIndex () <0x00087>
  at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinDatabase.GetAddinForHostAssembly (string,string) <0x0007f>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinRegistry.GetAddinForHostAssembly (string) <0x0003f>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinEngine.CheckHostAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly) <0x000c3>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinEngine.ActivateRoots () <0x00043>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinEngine.Initialize (System.Reflection.Assembly,string,string,string) <0x0018f>
  at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize (string) <0x00043>
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.InitializeAddins () <0x0003f>
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.DefaultInitialize () <0x00013>
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.Application.Initialize () <0x0000b>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Initialize (bool) <0x0003b>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor (bool,string) <0x00023>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor () <0x00017>
  at Nereid.Client..ctor () <0x00013>
  at (wrapper runtime-invoke) object.runtime_invoke_void__this__ (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.InternalInvoke (System.Reflection.MonoCMethod,object,object[],System.Exception&) <0xffffffff>
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (object,System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Reflection.Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo) <0x00197>
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Reflection.Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo) <0x00024>
  at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (object[]) <0x00042>
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type,bool) <0x001c3>
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type) <0x00013>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () <0x00017>
  at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup/StartupInvocationHandler) <0x00087>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup<T> () <0x00073>
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup<T> (string[]) <0x000eb>
  at Nereid.Client.Main (string[]) <0x00017>
  at (wrapper runtime-invoke) <Module>.runtime_invoke_void_object (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.AppDomain,System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) <0xffffffff>
  at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssemblyInternal (System.Re...

[Lucas Partridge (oakwing)]

Hi. Is this issue still being investigated? Has anyone else seen the same issue? I haven't raised a launchpad bug before so I'm not sure what to expect. Let me know if you need any more info from me.
Thanks.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I've forwarded your bug to the GNOME bug tracker. Please CC yourself to that bug and follow up with the developers' queries as needed.

[Lucas Partridge (oakwing)]

Thanks! I've cc'd myself to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671965 as requested.