need some help with banshee

[Def_101]

was using banshee last night to organize my music get cover art. this morning installed a gstreamer codec to veiw an email video, then went to go into banshee computer froze and i haven't been able to open banshee again. i get the wait symbol and it says banshe is starting on the bottom, but nothing. i removed the codec i installed today and nothing i reinstalled banshee and nothing a little help would be appreciated thanx

my launcher command is
banshee-1 --redirect-log --play-enqueued %U

on running banshee-1 this is what i get

at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.Skip () <0x00055>
at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.SkipToVa lue (string) <0x0007c>
at Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlReader.ReadValu e (string) <0x00011>
at Mono.Addins.Database.FileDatabase.ReadObject (string,Mono.Addins.Serialization.BinaryXmlTypeMap ) <0x0004a>
at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinHostIndex.Read (Mono.Addins.Database.FileDatabase,string) <0x00018>
at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinDatabase.GetAddinHostInd ex () <0x00070>
at Mono.Addins.Database.AddinDatabase.GetAddinForHost Assembly (string,string) <0x00077>
at Mono.Addins.AddinRegistry.GetAddinForHostAssembly (string) <0x0003d>
at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.CheckHostAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly) <0x00089>
at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.ActivateRoots () <0x0004f>
at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.Initialize () <0x00026>
at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize (string) <0x00156>
at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.InitializeAddi ns () <0x00049>
at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.DefaultInitial ize () <0x0000c>
at Banshee.ServiceStack.Application.Initialize () <0x00007>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Initialize (bool) <0x0001a>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor (bool,string) <0x00026>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient..ctor () <0x00019>
at Nereid.Client..ctor () <0x0000d>
at (wrapper runtime-invoke) System.Object.runtime_invoke_void__this__ (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception&) <0x00004>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception&) <0xffffffff>
at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (object,System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Refl ection.Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo) <0x000bd>
at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Reflection. Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo) <0x0001c>
at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (object[]) <0x00035>
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type,bool) <0x000f7>
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type) <0x0000c>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () <0x0000f>
at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup/StartupInvocationHandler) <0x000a2>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () <0x00038>
at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup (string[]) <0x000b9>
at Nereid.Client.Main (string[]) <0x0000a>
at (wrapper runtime-invoke) Nereid.Client.runtime_invoke_void_string[] (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) <0x00004>
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) <0xffffffff>
at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssemblyInternal (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) <0x00028>
at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string,System.Security.Policy.Evidence,string[]) <0x00021>
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string,System.Security.Policy.Evidence,string[]) <0xffffffff>
at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string) <0x00014>
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string) <0xffffffff>
at Booter.Booter.BootClient (string) <0x00055>
at Booter.Booter.Main () <0x00188>
at (wrapper runtime-invoke) System.Object.runtime_invoke_void (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>

Native stacktrace:

mono [0x806d944]
[0xb7ffb410]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(abort+0x18 [0xb7daa098]
mono [0x81868be]
[0xb7ffb410]
mono [0x815146e]
mono [0x8152812]
mono [0x80fc536]
[0xb7198023]
[0xb7197f68]
[0xb64a21cb]
[0xb64a20b4]
[0xb64a1fc8]
[0xb64a9b0a]
[0xb64a9b16]

[reed9]

You might try removing and reinstalling both banshee and mono. Make sure you're purging all the old configuration files as well (you can use the --purge flag with apt-get). I would also delete the hidden config files in your home directory. Not sure where they reside, I'd look under ~/.config and ~/.gnome2.

[Def_101]

to bad there isn't another way i spent a lot of time yesterday changing small inperfections in song titles artist albums to get all the album art work to show up. is there a way of backing up the library? and what is mono

[reed9]

You can back up any of the banshee conf files that your home directory. Assuming the above fixes the problem, you can add them back and see if it breaks again. I don't use banshee so I'm not too familiar with it.

Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net environment, and a somewhat contentious piece of code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
Linux News: Community: Is Linux Suffering From Mono?
Ubuntu is Driving Me Away Linux Canuck’s Weblog

[Def_101]

i never installed mono does it come pre installed i don't think i changed anything in it
and if i remove it do i install it again

and one more thing how do i purge flag

sudo apt-get --purge flag banshee

[reed9]

Mono is required by a couple of applications, such as Banshee, Tomboy, and F-Spot. As such, it's part of the Ubuntu distribution, since Ubuntu ships with Mono apps.

Come to think of it, removing mono will affect those others as well, so you'd need to reinstall them all, if you want to keep using them. You might try just purging Banshee and it's config files first before resorting to purging mono. I really have no idea if mono is at all the problem.

To purge, from synaptic package manager you can select complete removal, or sudo apt-get remove --purge banshee or sudo aptitude purge banshee.

To remove mono: The Open Sourcerer How to remove Mono from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope [Updated]

[Def_101]

thanks had to completely uninstall now i will try and get the library back

[reed9]

When you reinstall banshee, it will pull all the mono dependencies back in.