GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 632021
Seg faults on startup in Ubuntu 9.10
Last modified: 2010-12-08 03:40:24 UTC
Created attachment 172225 [details] terminal output from running banshee with all debug options I am on Ubuntu 9.10 64bit. I upgraded to 1.8 when it hit the PPA repo. After upgrading, it would launch, display, then crash. I tried a few things, then downgraded to get a working player again. The downgrade worked but some behaviors changed and it isn't as nice. So, I tried the upgrade again today. It crashes the same. So here's the report. Still Ubuntu 9.10. I moved the .config/banshee-1 folder and relaunched. Same problem. I searched the forum and the web but couldn't find anything helpful. ======================== I ran from the command line: ------------------------ $ banshee [Info 22:08:21.074] Running Banshee 1.8.0: [Ubuntu 9.10 (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-10-01 00:55:39 UTC] (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:14881): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times [Info 22:08:22.956] Starting collection of anonymous usage data [Info 22:08:23.752] Updating web proxy from GConf [Info 22:08:23.910] All services are started 1.08088 [Info 22:08:24.559] nereid Client Started Segmentation fault ------------------------ I do have the GDB package installed. I ran from the terminal with all the debug flags turned on and I put it all in the attachment. I hope this is helpful. :) -Mark
Comment on attachment 172225 [details] terminal output from running banshee with all debug options Hmm, again I'm not seeing anything helpful that stands out from the logs, and you clearly have all sorts of debugging turned on. Devs, is more information necessary, and how would one go about getting this information?
This is quite strange : the "segmentation faults" make it look like like a native crash, but for those usually the stacktraces are written to the output. Without those it's impossible to know what's going on. Mark, you mentionned you downgraded and Banshee worked again. What is the latest version that works for you ? Do you have any third-party Banshee extensions, maybe from the banshee-community-extensions package ? If yes, could you un-install them and see if it helps ?
I had added the PPA and the latest version I had available for my distro (Ubuntu 9.10) was "1.5.1-1". It was fairly recently that the package "1.8.0-1ubuntu1~hyper1+karmic" became available. To get it working, I just downgraded back to 1.5.1. The PPA I'm using is: http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main I went through my plugins and disabled a bunch and it works now. :) Go figure. I don't recall having installed any plugins myself, but apparently one of them is the problem. I re-enabled the ones I care about and restarted. It crashed again. I think it is the podcasting one. That's what is seems to be doing when it crashes. I checked the startup params for any options to disable plugins but can't find anything. A nice feature request would be something like a "safe-mode" where no addins are loaded. I tried the the --show-preferences option but it crashes before I can do anything. I renamed the "addin-db-001" folder under .config/banshee-1 but it doesn't help and gets recreated. The only option I have is to downgrade, turn off the podcast plugin (which I like and use) and then upgrade again. Thanks for helping to identify it. -Mark E.
It was definitely the podcasting plugin. Before playing with it, I copied the config.xml file which records the disabled plugins. While running 1.8, I enabled the podcasting plugin and it immediately crashed. When this is the entire contents of my config.xml... <Configuration> <AddinStatus> <Addin id="Banshee.Podcasting,1.0" enabled="False" /> </AddinStatus> </Configuration> Is there a newer, alternate or preferred podcasting ability for Banshee? Thanks, -Mark E.
An additional note. It appears that 1.8 on my system is fairly unstable. I was looking at some of the new plugins and clicking around causes it to seg fault and force close. For instance, the last thing was the Internet > Audiobooks (clicked) and it closed. When I have more time I'll upgrade to 10.10 which I'm using on my laptop and work machine, hopefully that will be more stable.
This is probably the ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/654469 . Without a stacktrace I can't say for sure, but I'd put money on it being the issue. Can we escalate this to ubuntu somewhere, this is hitting a *lot* of people. This really needs to be fixed sooner rather than later which means we need to find out why banshee is managing to hit this.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!