Banshee just crashed on me with the following error message:
[Info 20:44:59.949] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-06-18 18:47:49 UTC]
[Info 20:45:01.043] All services are started 0.949921
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: The database disk image is malformed
database disk image is malformed
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Reset (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000]
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Step (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000]
at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000]
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand:ExecuteNonQuery ()
at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection hconnection, Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection connection) [0x00000]
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
I think this is how it happened. My computer hanged while Banshee was running, and I had to force reboot it. Hence, the Banshee database file was corrupted. Thanks to boombox1387 from Ubuntu forum, this problem can be fixed as the following:
Install sqlite3:
sudo apt-get install sqlite3
Then run:
cd ~/.config/banshee-1
Dump the database in an SQL text format:
sqlite3 banshee.db ".dump" > dump
Backup the (corrupted) database:
mv banshee.db banshee.db.backup
Create and restore a database from dump file:
cat dump | sqlite3 banshee.db
Banshee started up again. Both files: dump and banshee.db can be removed.
Credit: [ubuntu] Banshee Crashed
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Just what I needed! Thanks.
Very helpful!
Thanks so much! Same thing happened to me. Worked perfectly!
I’m glad to hear this post has helped 3 people so far. 🙂
Thanks! Finally got my music to work!
This worked, thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Worked for me. Sharing as well.
Thank you for sharing. queue, death metal
Worked as well… nice.
Nice!!!, This is still working ,, i thought all hope was lost on my new ubuntu for music =(.. This fixed it, ha smooth stuff nice work!
Great job, I run Ubuntu in a VM and it kept crashing while playing music off a usb drive (my phone). Did realize there was corruption till I ran strace and saw the error. Your restore worked like a charm, so thanks.
Correction… “Did realize” -> “Did [not] realize”
No problem. Glad to hear your problem was solved.
This works perfectly in fedora as well, just replace ‘sudo apt-get install sqlite3’ with ‘sudo yum install sqlite’, the rest of the steps are exactly the same.
Yep, worked for me! Thank you, awesome!
Worked for me, thanks.
Awesome, didn’t have to lose all my metadata