Some follow up. First, I can work around this by launching banshee as root. This is less than ideal, but it does work.
Secondly, this bug exists in both the unstable and daily builds in the Banshee ppa's (ie, https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/banshee- daily) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/836909 Title: Banshee crashes while loading To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/836909/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs