Comment 9 for bug 1041661

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 1041661] Re: Banshee crashes very frequently

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:24:04AM -0000, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote:
> ... continued:
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> By the way, I'm using the latest Banshee updates on Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> I think 5 times per hour is an underestimate of the actual crash rate.
> If I start banshee from a terminal, I get similar crash output to that in the log file, but including
>
>
> [Warn 22:57:23.115] Caught an exception - System.Xml.XmlException: a name did not start with a legal character 32 ( ) Line 7, position 23. (in `System.Xml')
> at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadName (System.String& prefix, System.String& localName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadName () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadEntityReference (Boolean ignoreEntityReferences) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadReference (Boolean ignoreEntityReferences) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadText (Boolean notWhitespace) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadContent () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlDocument.ReadNodeCore (System.Xml.XmlReader reader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlDocument.ReadNodeCore (System.Xml.XmlReader reader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlDocument.ReadNodeCore (System.Xml.XmlReader reader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlDocument.ReadNodeCore (System.Xml.XmlReader reader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlDocument.ReadNode (System.Xml.XmlReader reader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load (System.Xml.XmlReader reader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml (System.String xml) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Migo.Syndication.RssParser..ctor (System.String url, System.String xml) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> [Warn 22:57:23.115] Caught an exception - System.FormatException: Invalid XML document. (in `Migo')
> at Migo.Syndication.RssParser..ctor (System.String url, System.String xml) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
> at Migo.Syndication.FeedUpdateTask.OnDownloadDataReceived (System.Object sender, Migo.Net.DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

Yours looks like it's caused by a broken RSS feed. Could you file a new bug with
this backtrace and the full output of banshee --debug please? That output should
show which podcast Banshee is having trouble parsing.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin