Ubuntu
banshee package

Banshee won't start

Bug #847545 reported by Jim Patterson on 2011-09-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	banshee (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Usually, I could launch Banshee from the notification area or dash, but at present, it won't go. I get the attached error output if I launch it from a console.

Its info header gives the version info:
Running Banshee 2.1.3: [Ubuntu oneiric (development branch) (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2011-08-25 18:47:06 UTC]

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Jim Patterson (jimp-launchpad-rs9z) wrote on 2011-09-12:

Error log giving traceback on failure to launch Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Jim Patterson (jimp-launchpad-rs9z) wrote on 2011-09-12:

Something possibly related. I have two other packages that are affected by a rather nasty qt4 bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+bug/805303 . To work around that bug, I've installed qtconfig and used it to reconfigure qt to run Motif style. This problem surfaces after I had done this, I think. Even after changing style back to Default or gtk+, though Banshee still isn't starting.

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Jim Patterson (jimp-launchpad-rs9z) wrote on 2011-09-12:

Either something I did or a ubuntu update has made Banshee work again. After my last reboot, Banshee was able to start again. In between Update Manager updated some things, including a new kernel version 3.0.0-11-generic. Or, it might have been a delayed effect of changing the qt4 theme or removing Banshee configuration files which I'd also done (neither had an immediate effect as I tested each by running Banshee).
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