Re: [Banshee-List] "Banshee is already running"

[Peter Colijn <pcolijn gmail com>]

I'm not a Banshee devel, but one thing you could try is stracing
banshee when it starts up, to see if it's determining whether another
Banshee is running by looking for some file somehwere. If it is
checking that way (and you are really sure Banshee isn't running), you
can just remove that file. You could also grep the source for "Banshee
is already running" and see what it's doing that way.

Have fun,

Peter

On 1/18/06, Russ Brown <pickscrape gmail com> wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 0.10.4, and now find myself completely unable to
> launch banshee at all.
>
> The error I get is:
>
> "Banshee is already running. If you were trying to control the already
> running instance of Banshee, D-Bus must be enabled. Banshee could not
> connect to your D-Bus Session Bus."
>
> Well, Banshee is definitely not already running. ps -eaf shows that
> neither 'banshee' or 'mono' is running at all.
>
> DBus is enabled. I've restarted it and dbus processes are running.
> Furthermore, if I run the ipod utility and plug my ipod in, I see
> notification of the device being found, so I know that DBus is working.
>
> Finally, I tried launching banshee with dbus-launch, which produced the same error message.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
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>
> Russ
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