Comment 6 for bug 768948

According to comment 4, it seems that banshee can in fact run (works in the indicator applet) but the main interface wasn't showing up.
If such a case happens again, could you please try to first kill any running instance of banshee before launching it?
To do so, you can simply type in a terminal: killall banshee
If the output to the previous command is "banshee: no process found", this means that the culprit is not an already running instance of banshee for your user, but then maybe something wicked with the memorized position of the main window.
Both cases would be compatible with message #5.