Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Not Opening in FC9

["David Nielsen" <gnomeuser gmail com>]

2008/11/5 Chow Loong Jin <hyperair gmail com>

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 07:04 -0800, seelie wrote:
> I just recently installed  1.2.1-2 and have the same problem. I used
> gpk-application to install.
>

I believe this issue was that banshee tries to use shell redirection to
redirect output to a log in ~/.config/banshee-1/log, but if you're
running it for the first time, that directory doesn't exist and the
shell script in /usr/bin/banshee-1 won't trigger the actual binaries to
run.

Workaround: Create a folder ~/.config/banshee-1, or start Banshee from
the Run dialog once. Subsequent attempts to start Banshee from the
launcher will work.

Ubuntu and Debian Banshee packages ship with a patch that fixes this
issue. This issue is also fixed in trunk and 1.3.x.

To the Fedora packager, it might be a good idea to ship with the
attached patch, if it isn't already included in the Fedora's Banshee
package.

The current maintainer is apparently not on the list but I keep a bug report with the mailing list patches:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469450

If Michal does not update the Banshee package (and deps) by Nov. 10th to fit 1.4.0 I will prepare a package and push it to the update channel. It is considered rude to hijack the package even if I used to be the maintainer so I will give him a few days.

- David