[Banshee-List] [SOLVED] Crash on Ubuntu 11.10, System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No such host is known

[Luca marchesotti <backprop gmail com>]

Thanks Bertrand!

I had actually disabled the features requiring internet access in 
Preferences->general and no more crashes. I have now only disabled the 
DAAP server and it works perfectly smooth :).

Thanks a lot

-Luca

On 10/23/2011 01:19 PM, Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:53 AM, backprop<backprop gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > upgraded a week ago to ubuntu 11.10, banshee was always working fine in
> > 11.04 now it almost always crashes on start with an unhandled exeception .
> > Google does not say a lot about this.
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance!!
> > -Luca
> >
> > [20 Debug 08:43:39.269] Finished - Saving Metadata to File
> > [20 Debug 08:43:39.271] Starting - Downloading Cover Art
> >
> > Unhandled Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception
> > has been thrown by the target of an invocation. --->
> > System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No such host is known
> >   at System.Net.Dns.hostent_to_IPHostEntry (System.String h_name,
> > System.String[] h_aliases, System.String[] h_addrlist) [0x00000] in
> > <filename unknown>:0
> >   at System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName (System.String hostName) [0x00000] in
> > <filename unknown>:0
> >   at System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry (System.String hostNameOrAddress) [0x00000]
> > in<filename unknown>:0
> >   at Daap.ServiceLocator.OnServiceResolved (System.Object o,
> > Mono.Zeroconf.ServiceResolvedEventArgs args) [0x00000] in<filename
> > unknown>:0
> [snip]
>
> I just committed a fix for that crash, catching the exception thrown
> when the hostname of a DAAP service using IPv6 can't be resolved.
>
> My guess is that the crash only happens when a DAAP server is running
> on your network, and maybe this happens now because the upgrade to
> Ubuntu 11.10 enabled IPv6 on your system.
>
> Until that fix becomes available, you can work around the problem :
> - Stop that DAAP server, if you can figure out what it is (maybe
> iTunes running on another machine ?)
> - Start Banshee
> - Disable the DAAP extension, in Edit>  Preferences>  Extensions