Banshee crash on song load

Question

When trying to play a song on Banshee, I get no sound followed eventually (after I click play a few times and meddle with options) by a crash. VLC media player seems to play fine. Log of its operation below.
[Info 21:57:03.683] Running Banshee 2.6.0: [ArchLinux (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2012-11-06 13:27:11 UTC]
[Warn 21:57:04.049] Cannot connect to NetworkManager or Wicd - An available, working network connection will be assumed
[Info 21:57:04.714] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 21:57:04.819] All services are started 0.911207
[Info 21:57:05.589] AmazonMP3 store redirect URL: http://integrated-services.banshee.fm/amz/redirect.do/
[Info 21:57:05.840] nereid Client Started
[Info 21:57:05.929] GStreamer version 0.10.36.0, gapless: True, replaygain: False
[Info 21:57:05.973] AppleDeviceSource is ignoring unmounted volume 103 GB Volume
System.ApplicationException: Could not find org.freedesktop.Avahi
at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.AvahiDBus.DBusManager.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.AvahiDBus.ZeroconfProvider.Initialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.GetProviders () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[Warn 21:57:06.323] Failed to start DAAP client - System.Exception: No Zeroconf providers could be found or initialized. Necessary daemon may not be running. (in `Mono.Zeroconf')
at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.GetProviders () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.get_DefaultProvider () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Zeroconf.Providers.ProviderFactory.get_SelectedProvider () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.Zeroconf.ServiceBrowser..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Daap.ServiceLocator.Start () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Banshee.Daap.DaapService.ThreadedInitialize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
Stacktrace:
Native stacktrace:
Forgive me if I'm just dumb. Watdo?

Answer 1

I got this:
[Info 15:00:43.118] Running Banshee 2.6.0: [ArchLinux (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2012-11-06 13:27:11 UTC]
[Warn 15:00:43.491] Cannot connect to NetworkManager or Wicd - An available, working network connection will be assumed
[Info 15:00:44.080] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 15:00:44.151] All services are started 0.799348
[Info 15:00:44.997] nereid Client Started
[Info 15:00:45.074] GStreamer version 0.10.36.0, gapless: True, replaygain: False
[Warn 15:01:01.795] Seem to be stuck loading file:///home/*user*/Music/Dooptidum/06%20Track%206.wma, so re-trying
[Warn 15:01:21.880] Seem to be stuck loading file:///home/*user*/Music/lalalala/anothersong.mp3, so re-trying
[Warn 15:01:22.946] Seem to be stuck loading file:///home/*user*/Music/suchandsuch/01%20Track%2001.wma, so re-trying
[Warn 15:01:26.422] Seem to be stuck loading file:///home/*user*/Music/blah-blah/08%20Track%208.wma, so re-trying
[Warn 15:01:29.833] Seem to be stuck loading file:///home/*user*/Music/shooptidoo/14%20Track%2014.wma, so re-trying
It didn't crash, but still refuses to play anything. It hung when I closed the window, so I killed it with ^C. We're getting somewhere though! I also tried doing su -c "chown -R me /home/me/Music".
...Perhaps I am missing codecs. I'll try and figure out how to install them onto Banshee/GStreamer.
EDIT: Tried su -c "pacman -S gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly". No dice, still refusing to load songs. Also, it's no longer writing info to the standard output, and I can't get a log of operations.
EDIT: Just dumb, resolved my nonissue and got a new op log:
[Info 15:24:10.591] Running Banshee 2.6.0: [ArchLinux (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2012-11-06 13:27:11 UTC]
[Warn 15:24:10.972] Cannot connect to NetworkManager or Wicd - An available, working network connection will be assumed
[Info 15:24:11.584] Updating web proxy from GConf
[Info 15:24:11.651] All services are started 0.813511
[Info 15:24:12.440] nereid Client Started
[Info 15:24:12.541] GStreamer version 0.10.36.0, gapless: True, replaygain: False
[Warn 15:24:19.194] Forcefully breaking out of RCS loop b/c change in total_width less than 1.0
[Warn 15:24:28.499] Service disposal (SourceManager) threw an exception - System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object (in `Banshee.FileSystemQueue')
at Banshee.FileSystemQueue.FileSystemQueueSource.Dispose () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Banshee.Sources.SourceManager.RemoveSource (Banshee.Sources.Source source, Boolean recursivelyDispose) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Banshee.Sources.SourceManager.Dispose () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.Shutdown () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
Last edited by Thisguy_ (2012-12-08 20:25:25)