Banshee workaround

[iwik58]

I had an issue launching Banshee - app would flash up on screen and then immediately disappear.
While searching for a solution I came across this>

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107068

The recent banshee upgrade causes banshee to crash upon start. According to this bug report a patch was committed but the Arch package still seems affected.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620461
As suggested running it with this workaround it does not crash.

(run in a terminal)

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XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 banshee-1
This also appears to fix a similar issue with PCLinuxOS 2010.10 pae kernel, KDE 4.5.3  (fully updated)
I also edited the menu entry for PCC> Sound> Banshee>  Command>   XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 banshee-1

Chow,
Graeme

[smcs_steve]

Thanks iwik58,  
One of my clients needed this fix for his home PC.
BTW, Welcome to the forum!
Cheers,
>Steve