Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee crashed, won't start anymore

[Stuart Luppescu <slu ccsr uchicago edu>]

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Chris Howie wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Stuart Luppescu
<slu ccsr uchicago edu> wrote:
>> I tried this already. No luck.
>>  ps aux|grep -i banshee
>> sl70      1095  0.0  0.0   7244   772 pts/0    S+   18:10   0:00 grep
>> --colour=auto -i banshee
>>
>> I tried this, too:
>> lsof |grep -i banshee
>>
>> And this:
>> fuser /home/sl70/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db-journal
>>
>> And still:
>>  /bin/rm banshee.db-journal
>> /bin/rm: cannot remove `banshee.db-journal': Text file busy
>
> Weird.  Try moving the file out of the way (mv banshee.db-journal /tmp)
for now.
Can't move it. I get the same result. But it can be overwritten. I did
cat /dev/null > banshee.db-journal
and it made the file 0 length but it still can't be removed.
>> OK. So, how come it won't start?
>
> Probably because the database journal can't be accessed or overwritten.
You would think, yeah. But it can be written and read, apparently.

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