just fyi, if this bug is pissing anyone else off and they do not mind reimporting all their music, a simple rm -rf ~/.gnome2/banshee/ should fix it.
-- banshee freezes on "initializing background tasks" on startup [edgy] https://launchpad.net/bugs/63697 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
