[Banshee-List] Re: Gentoo crashes

[Russ Brown <pickscrape gmail com>]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:42:26 -0500
Peter Colijn <pcolijn gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just subscribed to this list after reading a message from Russ Brown
> about Banshee crashing on Gentoo when an iPod is plugged in. I looked
> into the problem briefly, and it appears to be due to the fact that
> iPod icons are no longer shipped with Banshee, and so in
> SourceView::Render() the icon is null, causing a
> NullReferenceException. I hacked around that particular issue, but
> there seem to be a number of other places in the code where those
> icons are depended upon, and I didn't feel like working around all of
> them.
> 
> I filed GNOME bug #325370 for this. However, if the icons are now
> supposed to be in another package, then it is a Gentoo bug for not
> depending on that package.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Peter

Hi,

I found the same thing (after looking around some more) and decided
that the best thing to do for now would be to just downgrade to version
0.10-r1 (which is working fine for me now). I'm not sure either if it's
a banshee packaging problem or a Gentoo ebuild problem.

-- 

Russ