banshee freezes on start

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Debug output please. http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs

  status incomplete

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

At first glance, it looks related to this https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740879

Hmm, that new patch does look correct.

It doesn't seem it's been applied to the source yet though.

I'm thinking about testing the patch. If Banshee is not working in 16.04, it's a show stoppper for me. I'll report back if I'm successful.

Well, following this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpdatingADeb I get stuck on the first command.

laelia:/var/log$ sudo apt-get build-dep banshee
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 builddeps:banshee : Depends: libgnome-desktop-dev but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

libgnome-desktop-dev does not exist in repository. Don't know what to do from here. Will keep searching for solution.

Using aptitude instead of apt-get works.

sudo aptitude build-dep banshee

I tested the patch and it fixes the problem on Wily (up to date as of April 3rd).

I was able to rescan the library completely. Exit Banshee. Restart Banshee without a long freeze.

@Chow Loong Jin, are you able to push this fix uptream? Should it go to Debian or to Gnome/Banshee?

On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 07:11:20PM -0000, Francois Noel wrote:
> I tested the patch and it fixes the problem on Wily (up to date as of
> April 3rd).
>
> I was able to rescan the library completely. Exit Banshee. Restart
> Banshee without a long freeze.
>
> @Chow Loong Jin, are you able to push this fix uptream? Should it go to
> Debian or to Gnome/Banshee?

It should go into Banshee upstream. For the time being, I'll upload this patch
into our releases in Debian and Ubuntu. Thanks for testing.

  affects ubuntu/banshee
  status inprogress

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:24:55AM +0800, Chow Loon
g Jin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 07:11:20PM -0000, Francois Noel wrote:
> > I tested the patch and it fixes the problem on Wily (up to date as of
> > April 3rd).
> >
> > I was able to rescan the library completely. Exit Banshee. Restart
> > Banshee without a long freeze.
> >
> > @Chow Loong Jin, are you able to push this fix uptream? Should it go to
> > Debian or to Gnome/Banshee?
>
> It should go into Banshee upstream. For the time being, I'll upload this patch
> into our releases in Debian and Ubuntu. Thanks for testing.
>
> affects ubuntu/banshee
> status inprogress

By the way, wily is supposed to have sqlite 3.8.x. Are you running a newer
sqlite?

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 2.9.0+really2.6.2-7ubuntu1

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banshee (2.9.0+really2.6.2-7ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Merge from Debian, remaining changes:
    - Enable and recommend SoundMenu and Disable NotificationArea by default
    - Disable boo and karma extensions
    - Move desktop file for Meego UI to /usr/share/une/applications
    - [ccbcbbd] Make Banshee translatable in Launchpad
    - [2094ee5] Bump libgpod build-dep version to 0.8.2-7~
    - [a7156c0] Filter out libgpod-cil-dev versions built against gtk#3
    - [e7c634d] Update dversionmangle for extracting +really version out
    - [b5f10d6] Go back to dbus# 1.0 ABI.
  * Also brings in updated SQLite regression fix from Debian (LP: #1534971)

 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:43:17 +0800

In response to #11, as far as I know I have the default sqlite3 version. 3.11

$ dpkg -l | grep sqlite
ii libmono-sqlite4.0-cil 4.2.1.102+dfsg2-5ubuntu1 all Mono Sqlite library (for CLI 4.0)
ii libqt5sql5-sqlite:amd64 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu1 amd64 Qt 5 SQLite 3 database driver
ii libsqlite3-0:amd64 3.11.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libsqlite3-dev:amd64 3.11.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 SQLite 3 development files

The CLI is package sqlite3 and also 3.11 but it's not installed on my system.

I tested the release and it's fixes the reported problem. No more freezes on start.

Looks like you're on Xenial, not Wily.

Thanks for testing.

I can confirm that on 16.04 the problem is fixed. Banshee opens and works correctly.