banshee --set-rating=2 results in Unhandled Exception

[Brian Murray]

Binary package hint: banshee

There is a command line option to set the rating of a song in banshee but it fails with the following message:

8:47:43 - flash:[~] banshee --debug --set-rating=2
** Running Mono with --debug **
[1 Debug 08:47:48.766] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with InQueue

Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentNullException: Cannot handle a null message; maybe the bus was disconnected
Parameter name: msg
  at NDesk.DBus.Connection.HandleMessage (NDesk.DBus.Message msg) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at NDesk.DBus.PendingCall.get_Reply () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at NDesk.DBus.Connection.SendWithReplyAndBlock (NDesk.DBus.Message msg) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at NDesk.DBus.BusObject.SendMethodCall (System.String iface, System.String member, System.String inSigStr, NDesk.DBus.MessageWriter writer, System.Type retType, System.Exception& exception) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.MediaEngine.IPlayerEngineServiceProxy.set_Rating (Byte ) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Halie.Client.HandlePlayerCommands () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Halie.Client.Main () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.AppDomain:ExecuteAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[])
  at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssemblyInternal (System.Reflection.Assembly a, System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.String assemblyFile, System.Security.Policy.Evidence assemblySecurity, System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.AppDomain:ExecuteAssembly (string,System.Security.Policy.Evidence,string[])
  at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.String assemblyFile) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.AppDomain:ExecuteAssembly (string)
  at Booter.Booter.BootClient (System.String clientName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Booter.Booter.Main () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: banshee 2.0.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488
CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
Date: Fri Apr 15 09:04:35 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-10 (4 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From the upstream bug report:

"This works with the latest ndesk-dbus (aka dbus-sharp) from git. So it's a bug
in the 0.6.1 version.

I'm keeping this open for now, to make it easier for people to find it."

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you Brian.

[Wilbert Volkers (wilbertvolkers)]

When will an updated version be available via launchpad ppa? We have 0.6.0-4 (natty) available now.

[Wilbert Volkers (wilbertvolkers)]

Ok, to get this to work I updated Banshee (http://banshee.fm) to 2.2 from the banshee ppa:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa
  sudo apt-get install banshee