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Mardoct

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Registered: 2009-08-17

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Banshee Is Failing to Start

"banshee-1" returns this:

Unhandled Exception: System.Exception: Unable to open the session message bus. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: address
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000] 
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] 
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] 
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusConnection.get_ApplicationInstanceAlreadyRunning () [0x00000] 
  at Booter.Booter.Main () [0x00000]

My uninformed guess is that it can't get connected to dbus as it almost blatantly says.

This Arch installation is only a few hours old, so there isn't any notable straying form the defaults. I have all kinds of other GUI / GTK apps running without issue, and Rhythmbox is working fine. I really prefer banshee though. Any help?

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Fatih

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From: Ankara-Türkiye

Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 67

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Re: Banshee Is Failing to Start

I got the same error here. It doesn't start.

Fatih

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From: Ankara-Türkiye

Registered: 2005-12-17

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Re: Banshee Is Failing to Start

I could start it with this terminal code

dbus-launch --exit-with-session banshee-1

Last edited by Fatih (2009-10-14 21:36:48)

Bonner

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From: Derbyshire, England

Registered: 2008-09-09

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Re: Banshee Is Failing to Start

It sort of starts for me.

[jack-bonner@ArchBox ~]$ dbus-launch --exit-with-session banshee-1
[Info  17:48:23.680] Running Banshee 1.4.3: [source-tarball (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2009-05-02 22:31:39 CEST]
[Warn  17:48:27.041] Caught an exception - No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached. (in `Banshee.MultimediaKeys')
  at Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService.Banshee.ServiceStack.IExtensionService.Initialize () [0x00000] 
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.StartExtension (Mono.Addins.TypeExtensionNode node) [0x00000] 
[Warn  17:48:27.041] Extension `Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService' not started: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached.
[Warn  17:48:28.377] Cannot connect to NetworkManager - An available, working network connection will be assumed
[Warn  17:48:28.415] Caught an exception - No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached. (in `Banshee.MultimediaKeys')
  at Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService.Banshee.ServiceStack.IExtensionService.Initialize () [0x00000] 
  at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.StartExtension (Mono.Addins.TypeExtensionNode node) [0x00000] 
[Warn  17:48:28.415] Extension `Banshee.MultimediaKeys.MultimediaKeysService' not started: No support GNOME Settings Daemon could be reached.
[Info  17:48:28.417] All services are started 3.980433s
Killed
[jack-bonner@ArchBox ~]$

It boots up into a white screen and immediately eats 100% of my CPU. It won't close down and has to be killed through the task manager or terminal.
What's going on here?