On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 20:17 +0100, Andy Underhill wrote: > Hi All, > > I have created a problem for myself whilst trying to find out why > Banshee would not play my m4a's. > > Banshee now crashes on startup after a tidy up of my codecs (I removed > a lot of stuff from the Videolan repository, or replaced with packages > from the Packman repo). This is what bansee-1 --debug shows: > > emunix1:~ # banshee-1 --debug > ** Running Mono with --debug ** > > Unhandled Exception: System.Exception: Unable to open the session > message bus. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be > null. > Parameter name: address > at NDesk.DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00042] > in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/ndesk-dbus-0.6.0/src/Bus.cs:87 > at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x0002d] > in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/ndesk-dbus-0.6.0/src/Bus.cs:41 --- End of > inner exception stack trace --- > > at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00042] > in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/ndesk-dbus-0.6.0/src/Bus.cs:43 > at > Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusConnection.get_ApplicationInstanceAlreadyRunning () [0x00000] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/banshee-1-1.4.1/src/Core/Banshee.Services/Banshee.ServiceStack/DBusConnection.cs:69 > at Booter.Booter.Main () [0x0000b] > in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/banshee-1-1.4.1/src/Clients/Booter/Booter/Entry.cs:80 > emunix1:~ # Your problem seems related to dbus, and has probably nothing to do with codecs. Your dbus session bus might not be running. If you changed anything related to dbus recently, it's a starting point for investigations. You'll probably get more help from your distro's help resources. -- Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com> > http://flickr.com/photos/bl8/ <
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