so this is what I told you that my friend and I get on our systems when using the ebuild $ banshee Debug: [12/09/2005 08:04:33] (Changed active player engine) - GStreamer Debug: [12/09/2005 08:04:33] (Loaded PlayerEngine core) - GStreamer Debug: [12/09/2005 08:04:33] (Loaded AudioCdPlayerEngine core) - GStreamer Debug: [12/09/2005 08:04:33] (Audio CD Core Initialized) - Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Banshee.Dap.DapCore ---> System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Directory '/usr/lib/banshee/Banshee.Dap' not found. in [0x00166] (at /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.10/work/mono-1.1.10/mcs/class/corlib/System.IO/Directory.cs:447) System.IO.Directory:GetFileSystemEntries (System.String path, System.String pattern, FileAttributes mask, FileAttributes attrs) in [0x00005] (at /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.10/work/mono-1.1.10/mcs/class/corlib/System.IO/Directory.cs:250) System.IO.Directory:GetFiles (System.String path, System.String pattern) in [0x00007] (at /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.10/work/mono-1.1.10/mcs/class/corlib/System.IO/DirectoryInfo.cs:129) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:GetFiles (System.String pattern) in [0x00006] (at /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.10/work/mono-1.1.10/mcs/class/corlib/System.IO/DirectoryInfo.cs:124) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:GetFiles () in (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:GetFiles () in [0x00058] (at /var/tmp/portage/banshee-0.10/work/banshee-0.10/src/Banshee.Base/Dap/DapCore.cs:80) Banshee.Dap.DapCore:.cctor ()--- End of inner exception stack trace --- in <0x00000> <unknown method> in [0x00175] (at /var/tmp/portage/banshee-0.10/work/banshee-0.10/src/Core.cs:177) Banshee.Core:.ctor () in [0x0000b] (at /var/tmp/portage/banshee-0.10/work/banshee-0.10/src/Core.cs:73) Banshee.Core:get_Instance () in [0x00729] (at /var/tmp/portage/banshee-0.10/work/banshee-0.10/src/Main.cs:227) Banshee.BansheeEntry:Startup (System.String[] args) in [0x00001] (at /var/tmp/portage/banshee-0.10/work/banshee-0.10/src/Main.cs:49) Banshee.BansheeEntry:Main (System.String[] args)
i assume you are using USE="-ipod" to compile banshee... this issue is already fixed in cvs
*** Bug 115063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***