Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 2.0 On Windows 7 - Fatal Error

[G M Slater <precipitous media cox net>]

On 4/6/2011 3:40 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote:
> On 4/6/2011 3:57 PM, precipitous wrote:
> > I just installed Banshee 2.0 on a Windows 7 box. I set it to Run As
> > Administrator and tried running it both normally, and in 
> > Compatibility Mode
> > with Windows XP. Either way when I launch the application I get the
> > following fatal error:
> >
> > "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation".
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this error?
> >
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> I haven't tried the public build on Windows yet, but I do have the 
> latest git code running fine on Windows 7. You shouldn't have to run 
> Banshee in compatibility mode, and you *definitely* shouldn't run it 
> as administrator (you shouldn't run anything as administrator, really, 
> but that's a different topic entirely).
>
> The error you posted looks like something the JIT debugger would spit 
> out. Is there a way to expand the dialog you get to see the rest of 
> the message and the traceback? If so, please post that so we can have 
> a little more insight into what's happening.
>
> Depending on when the crash actually occurs, you may have some 
> information in the log. Please check 
> C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\Roaming\banshee for a log file and have a 
> look at its contents.
>
> Let us know if you find anything more.
The log file reads:
[Info  13:04:40.021] Running Banshee Unknown: [ (, ) @ ]
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown 
by the target of an invocation. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: 
Could not read add-in description
   at Mono.Addins.Addin.get_Description()
   at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.CheckHostAssembly(Assembly asm)
   at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.ActivateRoots()
   at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.Initialize()
   at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize(String configDir)
   at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.InitializeAddins() in 
c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Core\Banshee.Services\Banshee.ServiceStack\ServiceManager.cs:line 
71
   at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.DefaultInitialize() in 
c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Core\Banshee.Services\Banshee.ServiceStack\ServiceManager.cs:line 
119
   at Banshee.ServiceStack.Application.Initialize() in c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Core\Banshee.Services\Banshee.ServiceStack\Application.cs:line 
80
   at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Initialize(Boolean 
registerCommonServices) in c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Core\Banshee.ThickClient\Banshee.Gui\GtkBaseClient.cs:line 
144
   at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor(Boolean initializeDefault, String 
defaultIconName) in c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Core\Banshee.ThickClient\Banshee.Gui\GtkBaseClient.cs:line 
95
   at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor() in c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Core\Banshee.ThickClient\Banshee.Gui\GtkBaseClient.cs:line 
87
   at Nereid.Client..ctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean 
publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& 
ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean 
fillCache)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean 
skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)
   at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup() in c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Core\Banshee.ThickClient\Banshee.Gui\GtkBaseClient.cs:line 
82
   at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup(StartupInvocationHandler 
startup) in c:\Documents and 
Settings\User\Desktop\banshee\src\Hyena\Hyena.Gui\Hyena.Gui\CleanRoomStartup.cs:line 
54

As a side note - running .msi files normally installs applications as 
administrator, and sets them to run as such automatically. There are 
many applications which need to be run as administrator in versions of 
Windows from  Vista onward (I happen to be a support tech for one of 
them)...  One of the may reasons I run Linux at home!

Thank you in advance for helping me on this one...