Banshee plays one track and closes

[mijasdave]

I had been running Banshee 1.5.1 for several months with no major problems until recently. For the last few days, the app will open and will play one track, then abruptly closes. I have just upgraded to Banshee 1.8.0 to see if that solved the problem but it is exactly the same, one track and closes. By the way, I'm running on Linux 8.
Thanks in advance

[Elisa]

Try to open banshee in terminal like:

banshee
nothing else. The joke is in that you could see&read the output info to get what it caused...

banshee
[Info 15:54:01.974] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, i486) @ 2010-06-18 09:51:55 UTC]
[Info 15:54:13.871] All services are started 9.703099
[Info 15:54:18.613] nereid Client Started
[Warn 15:54:20.797] Caught an exception - System.Exception: org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property volume.is_mounted on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage_platform_floppy (in `NDesk.DBus.Proxies')
at Hal.IDeviceProxy.GetPropertyBoolean (System.String ) [0x00000]
at Hal.Device.GetPropertyBoolean (System.String key) [0x00000]
at Banshee.HalBackend.Volume.get_IsMounted () [0x00000]
at Banshee.HalBackend.Volume.CheckVolumeMounted (Banshee.HalBackend.Volume volume) [0x00000]
at Banshee.HalBackend.Volume.Resolve (Banshee.HalBackend.BlockDevice parent, Hal.Manager manager, Hal.Device device) [0x00000]
[Warn 15:56:55.559] Seem to be stuck loading file:///media/backups/Tokio_Hotel_stuff/Tokio_Hotel..., so re-trying
[Info 15:56:56.959] Uncached artwork size 218 requested

[mijasdave]

I ran the command Banshee and got this
$ banshee
[Info 16:23:29.392] Running Banshee 1.8.0: [Ubuntu 9.10 (linux-gnu, i486) @ 2010-10-01 00:55:12 UTC]

(/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:5029): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
[Info 16:23:32.855] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 16:23:32.927] All services are started 3.343458
[Info 16:23:35.510] nereid Client Started
[Warn 16:23:53.488] Audioscrobbler sign-on failed - Last.fm username is invalid or Banshee is not authorized to access your account.

Unhandled Exception: Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: The database disk image is malformed
database disk image is malformed
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Reset (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000]
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Step (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000]
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000]
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand:ExecuteNonQuery ()
at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection hconnection, Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection connection) [0x00000]

Also, i know i can use this to fix the problem but will lose all my playlists but im looking for a solution that will keep the playlists
mv ~/.config/banshee-1 ~/.config/banshee-1.bak
rm -rf ~/.cache/.banshee-1

[Elisa]

Try these http://turbulentsky.com/banshee-crash-p ... files.html
or these http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1490527#2
steps if they will help you.

[mijasdave]

Tried that, just got errors for each line :
SQL error near line 111289: PRIMARY KEY must be unique

[Elisa]

Did you carefully followed those steps? It's strange to get such error msgs as you did...
Then I'd rather try to full uninstall, restart just X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) and then install it again.

[mijasdave]

Yep, followed it all carefully. I've just done it again without errors but when i open Banshee, all my music and playlists are gone.????!

[Elisa]

AFAIK the playlist shoud stay in the 'banshee.db.backup'. And u haven't backuped the playlist ?
BTW I have my playlists as external files (in my other partition) therefore I don't need care much about backups either

[mijasdave]

Power of hindsight is a wonderful thing but unfortunately is about as useless as a waterproof teabag. I don't keep my playlists backed-up on my external drive so i must rely on the wonderful power of my OS to do that for me. To be honest, i only had one additional playlist and don't use ratings so it's not a huge problem, anyway thanks people for your input, begin again.

[Chrisnz]

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Cheers
Chris