banshee goes unresponsive after starting any playlist

[Andrew Tinka]

Binary package hint: banshee

Steps to reproduce:

1) Start banshee from the terminal

2) Observe the following output:
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[Info 14:18:03.355] Running Banshee 1.7.6: [Ubuntu maverick (development branch) (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2010-09-18 20:47:48 UTC]
[Info 14:18:04.652] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 14:18:04.742] All services are started 1.09572
[Info 14:18:06.208] nereid Client Started
System.ApplicationException: Could not find org.freedesktop.Avahi
  at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.AvahiDBus.DBusManager.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.AvahiDBus.ZeroconfProvider.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.GetProviders () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Warn 14:18:06.467] Failed to start DAAP client - System.Exception: No Zeroconf providers could be found or initialized. Necessary daemon may not be running. (in `Mono.Zeroconf')
  at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.GetProviders () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.get_DefaultProvider () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.get_SelectedProvider () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Zeroconf.ServiceBrowser..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Daap.ServiceLocator.Start () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Daap.DaapService.ThreadedInitialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
--end quote--

3) Start any playlist (double-click on "Music", or "Unheard", etc)

4) Music starts playing. Note that the progress meter (the slider near the top left corner) stays "Idle" with no time information.

5) A few seconds later, the window greys out. UI is unresponsive.

6) When the song is finished, no further music plays. UI still unresponsive. Keyboard shortcuts for next song, pause, etc. are unresponsive.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: banshee 1.7.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 25 14:05:45 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee

[Andrew Tinka (tinka-berkeley)]

* The errors relating to org.freedesktop.Avahi seem to be a red herring. The same problem reoccurred when I was connected to a different network, and the Avahi error wasn't there.

* Bug is intermittent, in that sometimes Banshee works properly. But when this problem occurs, it will continue occurring until the machine is rebooted (logging out doesn't fix it).

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Andrew, Please could you check if this behaviour is still occurring with latest release of banshee 1.8.0 included in Ubuntu Maverick?

[Andrew Tinka (tinka-berkeley)]

I tried, but could not reproduce this bug using banshee 1.8.0 on Ubuntu 10.10.

* the org.freedesktop.Avahi errors don't show up on the console
* progress meter always works, UI is always responsive

Just for completeness, here's the console output:

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[Info 10:48:37.335] Running Banshee 1.8.0: [Ubuntu 10.10 (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2010-11-26 13:53:04 UTC]
[Info 10:48:41.981] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 10:48:42.112] All services are started 3.843783
[Warn 10:48:43.634] Forcefully breaking out of RCS loop b/c change in total_width less than 1.0
[Info 10:48:44.236] nereid Client Started
-- end quote --

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

According to your last message this issue is not affecting you, so for now I will close this report. but if you encounter that this issue reappears in latest releases please reopened again. Thanks again.