Banshee freezes on start trying to look for network share on previous network

[Kory Hauser]

Binary package hint: banshee

I use my laptop at work (Ubuntu 9.10) and Banshee (1.5.1-1) detects one of my boss' daughter's network share. It doesn't connect to the share. I shut the computer down and will connect to a different network elsewhere. When I start up Banshee again, it freezes and the process needs to be killed manually. This only ever happens after I've been on that network with the share.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Wednesday 27,January,2010 06:03 AM, Kory Hauser wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: banshee
>
> I use my laptop at work (Ubuntu 9.10) and Banshee (1.5.1-1) detects one
> of my boss' daughter's network share. It doesn't connect to the share. I
> shut the computer down and will connect to a different network
> elsewhere. When I start up Banshee again, it freezes and the process
> needs to be killed manually. This only ever happens after I've been on
> that network with the share.
>
> ** Affects: banshee (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
Could you post the output of `banshee --debug`? And when it hangs try running
`killall -SIGQUIT banshee-1` in a different terminal. It should dump a
stacktrace to the `banshee --debug` output which should be useful for debugging.

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Vish (vish)]

Any news on this bug?
Could you provide the information as requested on comment #1?

[Jeff (jdorenbush)]

I think I'm having the same or a similar problem, and I think the problem might lie within the user's privileges.

When running "banshee --debug" I caught it hanging at the following:

[1 Debug 23:10:38.735] Delayed Initializating Banshee.Daap.DaapService
[3 Warn 23:10:38.741] Failed to load media-player-info file for
** (Banshee:7925): CRITICAL **: itdb_get_control_dir: assertion `mountpoint' failed
[4 Debug 23:10:38.909] DAAP Proxy listening for connections on port 8089

After having to force quit Banshee, I decided, out of pure curiosity, to try and run "sudo banshee --debug" -- Banshee started up just fine.

[Jeff (jdorenbush)]

After removing the DAAP service I determined there were other services causing it to hang. Through process of elimination I determined the services causing my lock ups were:
/usr/lib/banshee-1/Extensions/Banshee.Daap.dll
/usr/lib/banshee-1/Extensions/Banshee.Dap.dll
/usr/lib/banshee-1/Extensions/Banshee.Podcasting.dll

After removing them the problem stopped.

[matze (matzex)]

The bug also affects me.
When I start banshee in the terminal, the following error occures:

[Warn [...]] Failed to load media-player-info file for
 ** (Banshee: [...]): CRITICAL **: itdb_get_control_dir: assertion `mountpoint' failed #

After this I deactivate the daap support and delete the
Banshee.Daap.dll Banshee.Dap.dll Banshee.Podcasting.dll
data, like Jeff above me wrote.
So, banshee is running!
But I need the Pdcasting support in Banshee, which I can't use at the moment.

This bug can be a duplicate of Bug #646482, but there they wrote about media device support, which doesn't affect this here.
See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/646482

I user Banshee 1.7.6 on Ubuntu 10.10!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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