Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee crashing constantly

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

For future reference...

...particularly when you think you've found a bug that is unique to  
Gentoo (you said you switched from Ubuntu and had not previously  
witnessed this issue), I would suggest first filing a bug on  
bugs.gentoo.org and letting Gentoo dev's work with it first.  Often  
times it can be an underlying library that has been broken and gentoo  
developers can make use of that information to either
(1) see that the problem is corrected, or
(2) explain what kind of accidental portage mumbo jumbo got your  
system into the banshee-crashing state that it's in :)

At times, wacky bugs make it into Banshee's bugzilla which, in fact,  
have nothing to do with Banshee -- but an underlying library of some  
sorts :)

Also, Banshee won't suffer at the hands of agressive CFLAGS as, well,  
Banshee is written in .NET -- it doesn't care about your CFLAGS when  
you compile it.  However if you were to compile mono itself with some  
nasty CFLAGS (such as -fomit-brain-cells -fomit-sanity -fomit-coffee),  
I'm sure mono itself would break - but you'd probably notice that and  
Banshee crashing would be one of many mono applications that would  
break :)

Go ahead and follow the guidelines on the debugging page as it will  
produce a full useable stacktrace for us and we'll help you best we  
can :)

Cheers!

Patrick
(fellow Gentoo GNU/Linux user)

PS: follow the gdb instructions down to a 'T' - you need both the gdb  
macros as well as the signal handlers in there.  Mono throws signals  
all over and you won't be able to get Banshee to run under gdb  
otherwise.



--
Patrick "Trick" van Staveren
http://trick.vanstaveren.us


----- Message from abockover novell com ---------
    Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:45:44 -0400
    From: Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>
Reply-To: banshee-list gnome org
 Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee crashing constantly
      To: banshee-list gnome org


> This has nothing to do with power or hardware. You have to configure gdb
> properly when debugging a mono application.
>
> Please read our debugging page, it explains how to set up gdb and debug
> within it:
>
> http://banshee-project.org/Debugging
>
> In an effort to prevent RSI:
>
> ps aux | grep -v grep | grep "banshee.exe" | awk '{ print $2 }'
>
> Can be replaced with:
>
> pidof banshee
>
> Cheers,
> --Aaron
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 20:32 -0500, Nick Bargnesi wrote:
> > Odd.  Any other programs behaving similarly?  Have you tried removing
> > and reinstalling Banshee?
> >
> > emerge -C banshee && emerge banshee
> >
> > I recently had an issue that was gstreamer-related, doing a "emerge -C
> > gstreamer && emerge gstreamer" fixed it.  Couldn't hurt.
> >
> > On 10/9/06, Greg Johnston <greg johnston gmail com > wrote:
> >         Nope, I'm on a desktop.
> >
> >         The funniest part is that I get this error immediately after
> >         starting gdb on Banshee and Banshee freezes. Banshee starts
> >         playing again once I quit gdb. (Note...telling gdb to continue
> >         at the prompt doesn't do anything).
> >
> >
> >         On 10/9/06, Nick Bargnesi <nick den-4 com> wrote:
> >                 Interesting... you on a laptop?
> >
> >                 Other than a faulty UPS on a workstation, I'd think
> >                 SIGPWR would only be received on a laptop.  SIGPWR
> >                 should be reserved for notifying programs when the
> >                 system is experiencing a hardware failure.
> >
> >
> >                 On 10/9/06, Greg Johnston <greg johnston gmail com>
> >                 wrote:
> >                         Tried that and got this:
> >
> >                         (gdb) c
> >                         Continuing.
> >
> >                         Program received signal SIGPWR, Power
> >                         fail/restart.
> >                         [Switching to Thread -1232667744 (LWP 17192)]
> >                         0xffffe410 in ?? ()
> >
> >                         The main window doesn't disappear. It's still
> >                         there, and I have to manually kill it. But it
> >                         does not respond.
> >
> >
> >
> >                         On 10/9/06, Nick Bargnesi <nick den-4 com>
> >                         wrote:
> >                                 So it sounds like it's not crashing
> >                                 but the main window is disappearing?
> >                                 If it's crashing, follow instr. below
> >                                 for a useful backtrace...
> >
> >                                 Try attaching gdb to Banshee to get
> >                                 some type of useful error report.
> >
> >                                 gdb program `ps aux | grep -v grep |
> >                                 grep "banshee.exe" | awk '{ print
> >                                 $2 }'`
> >
> >                                 Once it attaches to Banshee, the
> >                                 process will stop executing.  Enter
> >                                 'c' to continue and wait until it
> >                                 crashes.  When it crashes, a 'bt'
> >                                 command will give you a backtrace to
> >                                 see the contents of the stack and
> >                                 where it crashed.
> >
> >                                 On 10/9/06, Greg Johnston
> >                                 <greg johnston gmail com> wrote:
> >                                         Hey all,
> >
> >                                         I'm running Banshee 0.10.12 on
> >                                         2.6.17-gentoo-r8 with
> >                                         CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott
> >                                         -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
> >                                         and CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu".
> >
> >                                         When playing music in Banshee,
> >                                         every couple minutes I'll get
> >                                         a crash. No error message when
> >                                         I run it from console, just a
> >                                         blanking out of the Banshee
> >                                         GUI, no more playing of a
> >                                         song, and no response. If I
> >                                         restart, everything is fine.
> >
> >                                         I was just wondering what
> >                                         might be happening...it's kind
> >                                         of strange. Maybe a gstreamer
> >                                         error? I'm just playing
> >                                         normal .mp3 and .ogg files. I
> >                                         didn't have this error on my
> >                                         previous installation (Ubuntu
> >                                         6.06).
> >
> >                                         Thanks a lot,
> >                                         Greg
> >
> >
> >                                           
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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