GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648443
Error when trying to open Banshee
Last modified: 2011-04-24 07:36:20 UTC
Originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768808 Binary package hint: banshee An unhandled exception was thrown: 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 Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. 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 .NET Version: 2.0.50727.1433 OS Version: Unix 2.6.38.8 Assembly Version Information: System.Xml (2.0.0.0) Banshee.Core (2.0.0.0) Hyena.Data.Sqlite (2.0.0.0) System.Core (3.5.0.0) gdk-sharp (2.12.0.0) Mono.Addins (0.4.0.0) atk-sharp (2.12.0.0) Hyena.Gui (2.0.0.0) gtk-sharp (2.12.0.0) Banshee.ThickClient (2.0.0.0) Nereid (2.0.0.0) NDesk.DBus.Proxies (0.0.0.0) Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0) Hyena (2.0.0.0) NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0) glib-sharp (2.12.0.0) System (2.0.0.0) Banshee.Services (2.0.0.0) Banshee (2.0.0.0) mscorlib (2.0.0.0) Platform Information: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686 i386 GNU/Linux Disribution Information: [/etc/lsb-release] DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04" [/etc/debian_version] squeeze/sid ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Apr 22 07:32:01 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: banshee UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-19 (2 days ago)
This bug actually sounds a lot like an issue caused by the rename of banshee-1 to banshee. Perhaps we should be catching this exception and doing something appropriate?
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 647412 ***