Re: [Banshee-List] Can't scan music library

[IBBoard <ibboard gmail com>]

Sorry, logged off for the night and I thought someone else might have
answered.

Banshee's database is ~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db. If you're happy to
delete it then do that.

To try and repair the database (potentially recovering play lists, play
counts, ratings and other data), see the bottom of the Banshee FAQ:
http://banshee.fm/support/faq/. You might need to install the sqlite3
command separately - check your distro for which package provides it
(I'm assuming an Ubuntu/Debian derivative, if you're using Synaptic)



On 03/04/14 21:09, Matthew Scown wrote:
> Will do. Where would I find the database so I can delete it? I just did
> a complete removal of banshee in synaptic and the same error flashes up.
>
> On Thu 03 Apr 2014 22:05:14 CEST, IBBoard wrote:
> > Yeah, a symlink loop would cause it. Banshee should really watch out for
> > that. Please check Bugzilla and report a bug if it isn't in there
> > already.
> >
> > As for the error, it looks like your database got corrupt (possibly from
> > killing it when running the "banshee --debug" command?). You might be
> > able to recover it (I once saw instruction for doing a dump and restore)
> > but it might need deleting so that Banshee recreates it from scratch.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/04/14 21:00, Matthew Scown wrote:
> > > And now, Banshee won't start at all, it throws up this error:
> > >
> > > http://pastebin.com/a3u5aDUQ
> > >
> > > On Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:58:37 CEST, Matthew Scown wrote:
> > > > Just to be clear the symlinked folder wasn't just in /home to link to
> > > > the ntfs partition, there was also one within my music folder, linking
> > > > to itself in infinite recess
> > > >
> > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:54:14 CEST, Matthew Scown wrote:
> > > > > I got this:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://pastebin.com/jDn9Q0cQ
> > > > >
> > > > > I deleted the symlink folder 'Music' from within /PureSilk/Music
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:50:07 CEST, IBBoard wrote:
> > > > > > What do you get if you run:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ls -l /media/PureSilk/
> > > > > > ls -l /media/PureSilk/Music/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It looks like it is looping and Banshee isn't spotting it. Ideally it
> > > > > > would (which'd be the fix) but some more info on the specifics of
> > > > > > your
> > > > > > file system and structure might help.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Symlinks by themselves shouldn't cause a problem - I've got an SSD
> > > > > > with
> > > > > > /home and /root on, so my music is on a HDD under /mnt/media/Music
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > ~/Music is a symlink to that, which it rescans without a problem.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 03/04/14 20:39, Matthew Scown wrote:
> > > > > > > I just realised I ran it then whilst the music folder was set to
> > > > > > > Music2,
> > > > > > > I put everything back to the state it was in when the loop was
> > > > > > > happening
> > > > > > > and I get this:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > http://pastebin.com/YZqfNX5Q
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > And when Banshee opened I radn 'Rescan music library' so
> > > > > > > hopefully the
> > > > > > > debugger will reveal the problem..
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:33:33 CEST, Matthew Scown wrote:
> > > > > > > > OK, here we go, Banshee opens and stalls at this point:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > http://pastebin.com/1mxHNCHL
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:27:10 CEST, IBBoard wrote:
> > > > > > > > > That means that Banshee is already open and running. Sorry I
> > > > > > > > > wasn't
> > > > > > > > > clear. Close Banshee, start it with "banshee --debug" and post
> > > > > > > > > what you
> > > > > > > > > get then!
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I suspect there's a loop happening somewhere that Banshee and
> > > > > > > > > Noise
> > > > > > > > > aren't detecting, but Rhythmbox is detecting and breaking out of
> > > > > > > > > (although I wouldn't expect that to happen much on an NTFS file
> > > > > > > > > system).
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On 03/04/14 20:18, Matthew Scown wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Hi, this is all I get:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > $ banshee --debug
> > > > > > > > > > ** Running Mono with --debug   **
> > > > > > > > > > [1 Debug 21:15:32.916] Bus.Session.RequestName
> > > > > > > > > > ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with InQueue
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > I just tried renaming my music folder from
> > > > > > > > > > /media/NTFSDrive/Music to
> > > > > > > > > > /media/NTFSDrive/Music2, set that as my music folder in
> > > > > > > > > > Banshee and
> > > > > > > > > > Banshee could scan it without any problems - however this doesn't
> > > > > > > > > > seem a
> > > > > > > > > > good solution as I use so many other progs with that folder in
> > > > > > > > > > linux
> > > > > > > > > > /elementary luna) and windows
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On Thu 03 Apr 2014 21:14:37 CEST, IBBoard wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > Can you post a log of what you get when you run "banshee
> > > > > > > > > > > --debug"?
> > > > > > > > > > > It'd
> > > > > > > > > > > help people work out what the app thinks it is doing! It might
> > > > > > > > > > > be best
> > > > > > > > > > > to post it on pastebin or somewhere and link to it.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > On 03/04/14 20:02, amicose wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > My music libraries won’t update anymore. I have my music
> > > > > > > > > > > > files on
> > > > > > > > > > > > a NTFS
> > > > > > > > > > > > partition, the music folder is linked from the NTFS folder to
> > > > > > > > > > > > my home
> > > > > > > > > > > > folder
> > > > > > > > > > > > by symlink.
> > > > > > > > > > > > In either Noise or in Banshee, whenever I attempt to rescan my
> > > > > > > > > > > > music
> > > > > > > > > > > > library, it keeps going round in circles, linking the same
> > > > > > > > > > > > small
> > > > > > > > > > > > batch of
> > > > > > > > > > > > albums over and over again until the same tracks are in
> > > > > > > > > > > > there 20
> > > > > > > > > > > > times or
> > > > > > > > > > > > more. It’s also a very memory intensive process, my CPU is
> > > > > > > > > > > > going
> > > > > > > > > > > > crazy. All
> > > > > > > > > > > > I can find by googling is some advice as to plugins which
> > > > > > > > > > > > detect
> > > > > > > > > > > > duplicate
> > > > > > > > > > > > songs but that would be useless! The library scans just keep
> > > > > > > > > > > > going
> > > > > > > > > > > > round in
> > > > > > > > > > > > a loop and will never get to the end.
> > > > > > > > > > > > Help!
> > > > > > > > > > > > I should add that both Banshee and Noise are looping with the
> > > > > > > > > > > > same
> > > > > > > > > > > > small
> > > > > > > > > > > > batch of files from my music folder. Rhythmbox however is
> > > > > > > > > > > > scanning
> > > > > > > > > > > > normally
> > > > > > > > > > > > and seems to far not to be affected.
> > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > >
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