Banshee won't start (System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusServiceManager)

[Rina Korisanszky]

Banshee won't start at all from the menu or from the command line. It says this when I try to start it from the terminal.

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusServiceManager' from assembly 'Banshee.Services, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic-pae 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 16 15:52:03 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Timothy Mayoh (timothy-m-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Rina,

Could you please try running:

banshee --debug

And then posting the results?

Thanks in advance,
Timothy

[Rina Korisanszky (butterflykisses-xoxo)]

Ok, I tried but it looks the same

rina@Rina:~$ banshee --debug
** Running Mono with --debug **

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusServiceManager' from assembly 'Banshee.Services, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

Thank you for replying so fast!

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Sounds like a bad install. Could you try reinstalling the package and see if
that helps?

sudo aptitude reinstall banshee

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[Rina Korisanszky (butterflykisses-xoxo)]

I tried sudo aptitude reinstall banshee but it said I don't have aptitude.

I did try sudo apt-get purge banshee then sudo apt-get install banshee.

It hasn't helped, I still get the same error.

[Tree_Of_Life (martinnicolas871)]

Hi,

I'm experiencing the same problem on a Ubuntu Desktop 64 bits Edition.

I have tried also a complete reinstall then I upgraded to 2.1.3 version from PPA Banshee Team.

No improvement

[Rina Korisanszky (butterflykisses-xoxo)]

@Tree_Of_Life

What version of Mono do you have installed? I had installed 2.10.2 for some other software and Banshee 2.1.3 has Mono 2.4.3 as a dependency. http://banshee.fm/download/archives/2-1-3/
I haven't tried updating my mono since I just started using a different audio player instead sorry!! Perhaps you can check what version of mono you have using

mono -V

[Tree_Of_Life (martinnicolas871)]

I have Mono 2.11 but I have no idea how I get this version :-P.
As I couldn't get any help on a french forum, I decided to try Amarok, a blessing in disguise...

[Tree_Of_Life (martinnicolas871)]

Upgrade to oneiric beta 2 but still the same message

[mathew thomas (maxie)]

same problem

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Could you post the full `banshee --debug` log in Oneiric? I think things might have changed a little.

[mathew thomas (maxie)]

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusServiceManager' from assembly 'Banshee.Services, Version=2.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusServiceManager' from assembly 'Banshee.Services, Version=2.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

same as just the command

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

The full log, please? Or is that all there is?

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Could you also try getting the output of "strace -f -e trace=open banshee --debug" please? It's going to be pretty long, so please attach it in a text file rather than pasting it into the comment inline.

[mathew thomas (maxie)]

the resaults for banshee and banshee --debug are the same

 strace -f -e trace=open banshee --debug
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libtinfo.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/bin/banshee", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
Process 10894 attached
[pid 10894] open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid 10894] open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid 10894] open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
Process 10894 detached
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
** Running Mono with --debug **
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/i686/sse2/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/i686/sse2/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/i686/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/sse2/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/sse2/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/tls/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/i686/sse2/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/i686/sse2/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/i686/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/i686/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/sse2/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/sse2/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/Extensions/tls/i686/sse2/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/Extensions/tls/i686/sse2/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/Extensions/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/Extensions/tls/i686/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/Extensions/tls/sse2/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/banshee/Extensions/tls/sse2/l...

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On 20/11/2011 08:16, mathew thomas wrote:
> by the looks of it there are a large number of files missing

No, there aren't any files missing. Some of them are optional, and many of them
are just located in different paths. I don't really know what's going wrong,
though.. It looks like your Mono installation must have been messed up somehow.
Just to confirm, could you paste the output of "dpkg -l banshee mono" please?

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin g

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for banshee (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[mathew thomas (maxie)]

sorry it took so long to get back to you.
i tried dpkg -l banshee mono
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
ii banshee 2.2.1-1ubuntu3 Media Management and Playback application
No packages found matching mono.

i looked up synapteic and there is no direct "mono" package available
there is mono-utils and mono-tools-gui which i installed with no change

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Sorry, I meant mono-runtime.

[mathew thomas (maxie)]

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
ii banshee 2.2.1-1ubuntu3 Media Management and Playback application
ii mono-runtime 2.10.5-1 Mono runtime

[mathew thomas (maxie)]

anything further on this issue?

[mathew thomas (maxie)]

solved i reinstalled all dependencies from the text file above
although a few modules from the list couldnt be installed it all now works