Extension Library Watcher causes Banshee to stall

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The extension Library Watcher causes Banshee to stall and do nothing even when closed and ran again. To reproduce this bug go to Preferences in the Edit menu and there in the Extensions tab click the checkmark for Library Watcher.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: banshee 2.9.0+really2.6.2-7ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-56.61~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-56-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 22 09:45:26 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-20 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Carlo Lobrano (c-lobrano)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 16.10

[Carlo Lobrano (c-lobrano)]

As workaround to take back control of banshee without reinstalling it

$ sed -i 's/Addin id="Banshee.LibraryWatcher,1.0" enabled="True"/Addin id="Banshee.LibraryWatcher,1.0" enabled="False"/g' $HOME/.config/banshee-1/addin-db-001/config.xml

[Carlo Lobrano (c-lobrano)]

Basically, edit file

    $HOME/.config/banshee-1/addin-db-001/config.xml

changing the value of Banshee.LibraryWatcher,1.0 to False

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@Carlo L. Thanks for the workaround