Arch Linux

I have the same problem, and I created a topic on the forum : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170958

I'm the same here. I've attached what happens if I run banshee in the terminal.

The workaround for this is to downgrade "gtk-sharp-2-2.12.22-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" to "gtk-sharp-2-2.12.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" This should be found in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ if not and like me, you could only find the new version "gtk-sharp-2-2.12.22-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" here is a link to the older file: http://www.mediafire.com/download/9qvn9 … pkg.tar.xz Once the file is downloaded just run (from the folder that you have saved the file in) "sudo pacman -U gtk-sharp-2-2.12.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" you will get a message: warning: downgrading package gtk-sharp-2 (2.12.22-1 => 2.12.11-1) and the older version of the file will install and Banshee behaves again! Thanks to Anthony Ruhier for the advise and the link!

The download link isn't correct, this one is good : http://www.mediafire.com/download/9qvn99o92w7iwgn/gtk-sharp-2-2.12.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Thanks Anthony, I must have copied your link incorrectly, appreciate you fixing it. Any news on this? Or is it not really considered very important? Thanks to all the dudes that work their buts off to fix these problems, keep up the hard work!

No news, sorry :(
I'm going to search if there is a bugreport on the banshee bugzilla, or to create one if there isn't.

The problem is that only a few distributions are on gnome 3.10 (with the new package gtk-sharp for mono, created specially for gnome 3.10), so I don't think there are a lot of users who experience crashes at launch in Banshee. That's why it's better to submit a bugreport directly to the Banshee team (imo).

Edit : done ! https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709813

Hi,

It seems the Banshee in [extra] is compiled against the wrong runtime profile (all of the other Mono/Sharp libraries it uses in are compiled against the 4.0 profile).
In order for Banshee to work, it needs to be built with the ``dmcs`` (4.0 profile) compiler instead of the ``gmcs`` (2.0 profile) compiler that it chooses by default.
Adding ``MCS=/usr/bin/dmcs`` to the ``./autogen.sh`` line in Banshee's PKGBUILD and rebuilding should resolve the problem.

Thank you Scott, it works !

I can also confirm this works. Thank you.

I've been monitoring this thread and adding ``MCS=/usr/bin/dmcs`` works for me too.

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but will this change go into the official package in the repos?