Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 stuck at "Initializing player engine"

["Gregoire Gentil" <gregoire gentil com>]

Launching gstreamer-properties once before Banshee actually fixes the
problem. Very strange indeed...

Grégoire



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregoire Gentil [mailto:gregoire gentil com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:49 PM
> To: 'banshee-list gnome org'
> Subject: Re: Banshee 0.11 stuck at "Initializing player engine"
> 
> 
> I compiled banshee using Gentoo and unmasking anything 
> possible. I have then all latest versions available from 
> http://banshee-project.org/files/ including:
> * banshee 0.11
> * libiddevice 0.5
> * ipod-sharp 0.6.2
> 
> I don't have helix (I don't know what it is and it's not 
> available on Gentoo) and I have gstreamer 0.10.10.
> 
> And yes, I want ipod support.
> 
> Last, find attached the strace file of banshee,
> 
> Gregoire
> 
> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:40:26 +0100
> > From: Stephen Holmes <stephen onedotone com>
> > Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 stuck at 
> > "Initializing	player
> > 	engine"
> > To: banshee-list gnome org, gregoire gentil com
> > Message-ID: <1158874826 9172 2 camel frodo novell com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 09:33 -0400, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I have successfully compiled banshee and 
> > banshee-official-plugins 0.11
> > > on Gentoo but when I start the application, the progress 
> > gets stuck at
> > > "Initializing player engine" for ever (CPU is at 0%) and nothing
> > > happens.
> > > 
> > 
> > Did you also build the latest libipoddevice (from CVS) and 
> ipod-sharp
> > from subversion?
> > 
> > Also, are you using either gstreamer 0.10 and/or the helix player?
> > 
> > > I tried banshee --debug but the output doesn't show 
> > anything critical:
> > > 
> > > ** Running Banshee in Debug Mode **
> > > (/usr/lib/banshee/banshee.exe:13555): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **:
> > > GdkPixbufLoader finalized without calling 
> > gdk_pixbuf_loader_close() -
> > > this is not allowed. You must explicitly end the data 
> stream to the
> > > loader before dropping the last reference.
> > > 
> > > Warning: [9/21/2006 9:26:09 AM] (Cannot connect to 
> > NetworkManager) - An
> > > available, working network connection will be assumed
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Note that the progress bar continues moving forward after 
> > the messages
> > > but it gets definitely stuck later.
> > > 
> > > Any idea how I can debug the situation? Any idea what could 
> > be wrong?
> > > 
> > > Gregoire
>