On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 15:24 +0100, Torsten Andre wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to write a script to be able to handle banshee from the command > line and noticed that whenever I query some information from banshee, a > new banshee instance is started. Therefore, it is impossible to query > any information using the command line. If I'm not mistaken, this > behavior is new. If I recall correctly, when I first installed banshee > some time ago, I was able to query for the current track or whatever. > > Beneath I posted the output when starting banshee including the my > Debian version, though it is not sid but squeeze. Can someone reproduce > this behavior? I'm sorry if this has been posted before, though my > search in the forum archive and bug tracking system did not bring up any > results. I'm actually not running the gnome desktop, only some programs > which I'd like to use, e.g. banshee. > > Thanks for your help. > Cheers, > Torsten > > ---- > Here the output starting banshee: > > > [Info 15:16:24.732] Running Banshee 1.5.1: [Debian GNU/Linux unstable > (sid) (linux-gnu, i486) @ 2009-10-14 18:26:16 UTC] > > (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:4554): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() > called multiple times > [Warn 15:16:24.964] DBus support could not be started. Disabling for > this session. This message shows the problem : something is wrong wih d-bus on your system. Maybe the session bus is not started or it's not setup properly. Banshee uses d-bus to check if there's already an instance of itself running. So I guess that if you fix your d-bus issue, Banshee would behave as you expect. -- Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com> > http://bl-log.blogspot.com <
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