Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee crashes after updating compiled version

[Michael Krabbe Borregaard <mkborregaard gmail com>]

Sorry for bumping this - I am a new poster, and the original had such 
garbled formatting as to be unreadable. Here is a new version with line 
breaks:

I am new to Ubuntu, and thus unsure about whether this is the correct 
forum. I have moved this post from the general Ubuntu forum: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1852901 . I hope this is 
according to etiquette.

I was eager to try out Banshee 2.2, but could not find it in the Banshee 
ppa. So I downloaded the source from the Banshee website, and installed 
it on my machine using ./configure; make; sudo checkinstall. I had to 
run each command several times to get all the necessary dependencies 
(dev-libs) installed. I also try to compile and install the banshee-2.2 
community extensions, but the install failed, so I gave up.

I subscribe to the banshee ppa, and when running sudo apt-get 
dist-upgrade it automatically downloaded and installed banshee 2.2.1. 
There were several error messages during the install (sorry, I do not 
know where to find the install log - will post if you can direct me to 
where it is). Now, banshee crashes upon launch, with the following message:

[code]

michael@ubuntu:~$ banshee
[Info  13:08:03.772] Running Banshee 2.2.0: [Ubuntu 11.04 (linux-gnu, 
i686) @ 2011-09-27 10:02:56 UTC]
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown 
by the target of an invocation. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: 
Could not read add-in description
  at Mono.Addins.Addin.get_Description () [0x00000] in <filename 
unknown>:0
  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.CheckHostAssembly 
(System.Reflection.Assembly asm) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.ActivateRoots () [0x00000] in 
<filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.Initialize () [0x00000] in 
<filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize (System.String configDir) 
[0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.InitializeAddins () [0x00000] 
in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.DefaultInitialize () [0x00000] 
in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.Application.Initialize () [0x00000] in 
<filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Initialize (Boolean 
registerCommonServices) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor (Boolean initializeDefault, 
System.String defaultIconName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Nereid.Client..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) 
System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:InternalInvoke 
(object,object[],System.Exception&)
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, 
BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, 
System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) 
[0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, 
BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, 
System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) 
[0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (BindingFlags invokeAttr, 
System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, 
System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (System.Object[] 
parameters) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, Boolean 
nonPublic) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x00000] in 
<filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () [0x00000] in <filename 
unknown>:0
  at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup 
(Hyena.Gui.StartupInvocationHandler startup) [0x00000] in <filename 
unknown>:0
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve 
property `GtkWidget::link-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value 
"((GString*) 0x9326ba0)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve 
property `GtkWidget::link-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value 
"((GString*) 0x93dfcb0)" of type `GString'

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I have tried removing the app (using both complete removal in Synaptic, 
and autoremove) and reinstalling. Now, the install gives fewer error 
messages, though still the message:

[code]
Udpakker banshee-extension-soundmenu (fra 
.../banshee-extension-soundmenu_2.2.0-1ubuntu2~hyper1+natty_i386.deb)...
Behandler udløsere for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'virtual/bluedevil-input'
Unknown media type in type 'virtual/bluedevil-audio'
Unknown media type in type 'virtual/bluedevil-sendfile'
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin'
Behandler udløsere for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Behandler udløsere for desktop-file-utils ...
Behandler udløsere for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.da_DK.utf8.cache...
Behandler udløsere for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Behandler udløsere for menu ...
Behandler udløsere for man-db ...
Behandler udløsere for python-support ...
Sætter banshee (2.2.0-1ubuntu2~hyper1+natty) op...
Sætter banshee-extension-soundmenu (2.2.0-1ubuntu2~hyper1+natty) op...
Behandler udløsere for menu ...

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Reinstalling does not solve the problem, and I cannot run banshee 
anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,

Michael