banshee dies violently when initiated with a newer database

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

Here's what I get when launching banshee. I tested 11.10 on a separate partition, hence my banshee database was updated in version.... is this really the desired behaviour when I try to use it again in my trusted OS?

[Info 17:28:04.934] Running Banshee 2.0.1: [Ubuntu 11.04 (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2011-07-05 13:53:01 UTC]
[Error 17:28:05.194] Error initializing required service DbConnection
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Banshee.Database.BansheeDbFormatMigrator+DatabaseVersionTooHigh: This version of Banshee was prepared to work with older database versions (=< 43) thus it is too old to support the current version of the database (44).
  at Banshee.Database.BansheeDbFormatMigrator.Migrate () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  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

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 2.0.1-1ubuntu1~natty2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-12.51-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 14 17:28:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Snorri (jkoch-contact)]

i can fix this issue by deleting the banshee.db database file.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Unfortunately, we don't support downgrades. You'll find that Banshee isn't the only program that doesn't downgrade properly, and that's normal. I had issues when sharing my /home with ArchLinux as well, some time in the past.