Banshee.exe crashes on startup

[Patrick Wilson]

Binary package hint: banshee

Banshee crashes within a second of starting up

Ubuntu 11.04
Banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu1

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 29 18:59:47 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/banshee/Banshee.exe
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/mono
ProcCmdline: banshee /usr/lib/banshee/Banshee.exe --redirect-log --play-enqueued
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: banshee
StacktraceTop:
 _nss_wins_gethostbyname_r () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 _nss_wins_gethostbyname2_r () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 gethostbyname2_r () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 getaddrinfo () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: Banshee.exe crashed with SIGABRT in _nss_wins_gethostbyname_r()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare

[Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure)]

From both your description your stack trace, considered together, I can see that this bug is actually a duplicate of bug 529714. (That bug's title is misleading--it's actually not specific to RhythmBox at all, and there are several bugs marked duplicates of that bug in which the crash occurred in Banshee on launch--in fact, in Ubuntu 11.04, it appears to primary occur in Banshee.)

You'll notice that in bug 529714 there is a workaround recommended. I recommend you try this. I'll post more about this in your question (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+question/154805).