** Message: console message: @0: Unable to post message to http://youtubelyric.com. Recipient has origin null.

[PeterPall]

If I try to activate the "download lyrics" functionality I get the message stated in the title of this bug report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: banshee-extension-lyrics 2.2.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 28 07:57:09 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: banshee-community-extensions
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Hi PeterPall,

Could you post the full console output from "banshee --debug" please?

  status incomplete

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[PeterPall (peterpall)]

Did solve the problem for me: In gconf-editor the key /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy was set even if I haven't specified any proxy since I don't use one.
Since I never changed this setting directly I assume there is a bug in gnome-control-center, though, where I once had tried to set up my system for a proxy and later to revert that setting.

[PeterPall (peterpall)]

Bug # 861158 described that the proxy can be set to an invalid value, so I thought to mark this bug as a duplicate for the other one. But the fact that banshee is the only application I have seen misbehave afterwards perhaps justifies keeping this bug open. If anybody knows what means the lyrics plugin uses to access the net please feel free to reassign this bug.