Fatal error when starting Banshee

[Danté]

Binary package hint: banshee

Banshee crashed with a fatal error today (Error text below)

Other problems include extremely sluggish response, even to the point of silently crashing. Sound menu plugin did not function at all. Extremely jittery playing music (pausing for a splint second every 3 to 5 seconds or so, turned off replaygain, etc. No change)

Attempted Ubuntu version, then used ppa to try the newest version (1.8)

Bug Text:

Encountered A Fatal Error

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

An unhandled exception was thrown: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.SqliteModelCache`1[Banshee.Collection.Database.DatabaseArtistInfo].CheckCacheTable () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.SqliteModelCache`1[Banshee.Collection.Database.DatabaseArtistInfo]..ctor (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection connection, System.String uuid, ICacheableDatabaseModel model, Hyena.Data.Sqlite.SqliteModelProvider`1 provider) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Database.BansheeModelCache`1[Banshee.Collection.Database.DatabaseArtistInfo]..ctor (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection connection, System.String uuid, ICacheableDatabaseModel model, Hyena.Data.Sqlite.SqliteModelProvider`1 provider) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Collection.Database.DatabaseFilterListModel`2[T,U]..ctor (System.String name, System.String label, Banshee.Sources.DatabaseSource source, Banshee.Collection.Database.DatabaseTrackListModel trackModel, Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection connection, Hyena.Data.Sqlite.SqliteModelProvider`1 provider, .U selectAllItem, System.String uuid) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Collection.Database.DatabaseArtistListModel..ctor (Banshee.Sources.DatabaseSource source, Banshee.Collection.Database.DatabaseTrackListModel trackModel, Banshee.Database.BansheeDbConnection connection, System.String uuid) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Sources.DatabaseSource+<CreateFiltersFor>c__Iterator6.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Sources.DatabaseSource.DatabaseSourceInitialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Sources.DatabaseSource..ctor (System.String generic_name, System.String name, System.String id, Int32 order, Banshee.Sources.Source parent) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Sources.DatabaseSource..ctor (System.String generic_name, System.String name, System.String id, Int32 order) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Sources.PrimarySource..ctor (System.String generic_name, System.String name, System.String id, Int32 order) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Library.LibrarySource..ctor (System.String label, System.String name, Int32 order) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Library.MusicLibrarySource..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.Application.Run () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Initialize (Boolean registerCommonServices) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor (Boolean initializeDefault, System.String defaultIconName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Nereid.Client..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception&)
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, Boolean nonPublic) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Hyena.Gui.StartupInvocationHandler startup) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

.NET Version: 2.0.50727.1433
OS Version: Unix 2.6.35.22

Assembly Version Information:

gkeyfile-sharp (1.0.0.0)
Banshee.AudioCd (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.CoverArt (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.AmazonMp3 (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.Daap (1.8.0.0)
Migo (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.Podcasting (1.8.0.0)
Lastfm (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.Dap (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.LibraryWatcher (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.MultimediaKeys (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.Bpm (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.Lastfm (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.WebBrowser (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.Wikipedia (1.8.0.0)
pango-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Banshee.Fixup (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.Widgets (1.8.0.0)
gio-sharp (2.14.0.0)
gudev-sharp (1.0.0.0)
Banshee.Gio (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.GStreamer (1.8.0.0)
Mono.Media (1.8.0.0)
System.Transactions (2.0.0.0)
System.Configuration (2.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
gconf-sharp (2.24.0.0)
Banshee.Gnome (1.8.0.0)
Banshee.NowPlaying (1.8.0.0)
Mono.Cairo (2.0.0.0)
System.Data (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Data.Sqlite (1.8.0.0)
System.Xml (2.0.0.0)
Banshee.Core (1.8.0.0)
Hyena.Data.Sqlite (1.8.0.0)
System.Core (3.5.0.0)
gdk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.4.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Hyena.Gui (1.8.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Banshee.ThickClient (1.8.0.0)
Nereid (1.8.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.Proxies (0.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Hyena (1.8.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
Banshee.Services (1.8.0.0)
Banshee (1.8.0.0)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 unknown GNU/Linux

Disribution Information:

[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"

[/etc/debian_version]
squeeze/sid

[Danté (dante-ashton)]

Error occured in both the Ubuntu repo version (10.10) and 1.8.0

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Please can you try to do this:

$ cd ~/.config/banshee-1
$ sqlite3 banshee.db ".dump" > dump
$ mv banshee.db banshee.db.backup
$ cat dump | sqlite3 banshee.db

and then start Banshee again

[Danté (dante-ashton)]

Whoops! Forgot about this bug: this was solved on BugZilla; my computer, running Banshee, fell to a kernel bug which made accessing slow drives eat up the system. Banshee simply died because it ate my RAM.

This can be closed. :)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sunday 31,October,2010 10:37 PM, Dante wrote:
> Whoops! Forgot about this bug: this was solved on BugZilla; my computer,
> running Banshee, fell to a kernel bug which made accessing slow drives
> eat up the system. Banshee simply died because it ate my RAM.
>
> This can be closed. :)
>
  status invalid

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin