Banshee won't start - no error messages

[Yves]

Binary package hint: banshee

Package: Banshee 1.4.3-3ubuntu2
Distrib: Ubuntu 9.04

Since the last package upgrade, banshee won't start anymore, the Banshee windows opens but stays gray and unresponsive while the CPU peaks at 100%.

There is no error in the logs when I try to start it from the console with debug options. (as you can see in the attached log file).

I've already tried purging everything (removing ~/.config/banshee-1) it makes no difference. Also tried with Banshee unstable (1.5) : same.

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

I can confirm that.

Banshee hangs on start for me with version 1.4.3-5 and 1.4.3-6.

Log for start with 1.4.3-6 attached.
$ banshee --debug --debug-sql --debug-addins > banshee-debug.log

Running
$ banshee --disable-dbus --no-gtkrc
did not help.

It was working before for me in karmic, then stopped at some point few days ago. I am actually not sure if it stopped working before or after the 1.4.3-5 ->1.4.3-6 upgrade.

Downgrading to 1.4.3-5 did not resolve the problem, so I assume the bug is triggered by another package (something related to mono?)

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: banshee 1.4.3-6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

[Yves (yraber)]

Suddently my banshee is working again ! No idea why.

Here are the upgrades that were made with synaptic in between :

linux-headers-2.6.28-15 (2.6.28-15.48) to 2.6.28-15.49
linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic (2.6.28-15.48) to 2.6.28-15.49
linux-headers-2.6.28-15-server (2.6.28-15.48) to 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic (2.6.28-15.48) to 2.6.28-15.49
linux-image-2.6.28-15-server (2.6.28-15.48) to 2.6.28-15.49
linux-libc-dev (2.6.28-15.48) to 2.6.28-15.49

curl (7.18.2-8ubuntu4) to 7.18.2-8ubuntu4.1
libcurl3 (7.18.2-8ubuntu4) to 7.18.2-8ubuntu4.1
libcurl3-gnutls (7.18.2-8ubuntu4) to 7.18.2-8ubuntu4.1
libcurl4-gnutls-dev (7.18.2-8ubuntu4) to 7.18.2-8ubuntu4.1
linux-headers-generic (2.6.28.14.19) to 2.6.28.15.20
linux-headers-server (2.6.28.14.19) to 2.6.28.15.20
linux-image-generic (2.6.28.14.19) to 2.6.28.15.20
linux-image-server (2.6.28.14.19) to 2.6.28.15.20
linux-libc-dev (2.6.28-14.47) to 2.6.28-15.48
linux-restricted-modules-common (2.6.28-14.19) to 2.6.28-15.20
linux-restricted-modules-server (2.6.28.14.19) to 2.6.28.15.20
linux-server (2.6.28.14.19) to 2.6.28.15.20

libxml2 (2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4) to 2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
libxml2-dbg (2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4) to 2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
libxml2-dev (2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4) to 2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
libxml2-utils (2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4) to 2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
python-libxml2 (2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4) to 2.6.32.dfsg-5ubuntu4.2

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Still not working here with up-to-date karmic

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Problem went away after upgrade to 1.5.1~git2260a87-0ubuntu1

[v1nsai (v1nsai)]

Banshee was working fine for me while I was browsing the web, it froze and now won't start up. Running from the command line gives no errors, it just sits there, and using 'banshee --debug --debug-sql --debug-addins > banshee-debug.log'
 options the only thing that is output to the log file is

[Debug 00:24:05.277] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with InQueue

I've tried uninstalling (with --purge) and reinstalling, but same problem. I'm using banshee 1.6 beta 2 (1.5.1)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

This is a different bug from what you are seeing.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

What is necessary is to kill banshee (killall -9 banshee-1), as it has hung while waiting on D-Bus. I think your issue is actually a race condition in DBus, as I have seen similar hangs from different DBus using applications.

[Berete Marmelade (belettemalade)]

Sorry, I have never used Launchpad or the bug center so I hope I'm right here.

I have exactly the same problem "Banshee windows opens but stays gray and unresponsive while the CPU peaks at 100%." with Banshee 1.81. and Ubuntu 10.10.

The problem just occured today and may have to do with the fact that I rebooted the computer without closing banshee. I can't help it, I deleted banshee (backed my db before), reinstalled, problem stays. Is there a known way to deal with the problem. Or: should I post this on another place to get help?