Banshee CPU usage problem Mint 16

[Barry Rueger]

I just did a full reinstall in Mint to the latest version. Sometime last week I started Banshee for the first time, and let it catalog my Music partition. That went fine. Sometime after that I "closed" the Banshee window and forgot about it.

What I expected: that Banshee would continue running while minimized to the taskbar.

What happened: This morning I found my PC running very slow. I opened System Monitor and found that both CPUs were maxed out. Banshee was the culprit. A force quit got everything back to normal.

I will try to replicate the problem.

Release: Linux Mint 16 "petra"
Edition: Cinnamon 64-bit
Dell PC Inspiron 531

barry@barry-Inspiron-531 ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: barry-Inspiron-531 Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.1)
           Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 16 Petra
Machine: System: Dell product: Inspiron 531 version: 00
           Mobo: Dell model: 0RY206 version: A00 Bios: Dell version: 1.0.13 date: 02/09/2009
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 4018.58
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1000.00 MHz 2: 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV630 XT [Radeon HD 2600 XT] bus-ID: 02:00.0
           X.Org: 1.14.3 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz, 1280x1024@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV630 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV630 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 2600 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 02:00.1
           Card-2: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:05.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.11.0-12-generic
Network: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth port: ec00 bus-ID: 00:07.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR2413/AR2414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg]
           driver: ath5k bus-ID: 01:0a.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 2000.4GB (16.6% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST2000DM001 size: 2000.4GB
Partition: ID: / size: 459G used: 309G (71%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 100.00GB used: 0.70GB (1%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 16.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 82.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 205 Uptime: 14 days Memory: 2290.7/3009.3MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.1 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4

[Barry Rueger (barry-rueger)]

Just restarted Banshee:

1:27 pm March 15
CPU 0 ID 776 Memory 60.2 MB

Clicked Play (random)
CPU 182 ID 776 Memory 62.3 MB

Banshee is now frozen.
My Music partition has 14,452 songs in 86.4 gigs.

[Barry Rueger (barry-rueger)]

Bingo: Relaunched; turned off shuffle; Banshee now plays properly.

CPU 8 ID 884 Memory 68.1 MB

[Barry Rueger (barry-rueger)]

Followup: after a number of days (four days) Banshee is once again gobbling up my CPU:

Banshee CPU% 164 ID 6752 Memory 98.4

Since the initial report above Banshee window has been closed, and Banshee has been running unattended while minimized to the sound icon.

Screen Grab attached of Properties.

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

Please can you copy this bug report to the Banshee bug tracker, then update the Banshee link here to point at the newly raised bug?

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Banshee typically freezes up when seeing an unhandled exception. Could you follow the instructions on http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs to obtain a debug log and forward this bug to the upstream Banshee bug tracker please?

[Barry Rueger (barry-rueger)]

Will followup later this week.

Barry