I can confirm this bug is also present in Kubuntu Edgy. Also, the installing gstreamer-tools and running gst-launch fixes the problem, but this is still a bug that should be fixed (Banshee is broken out of the box on anything but ubuntu-desktop).
-- Banshee freezes on Initializing audio https://launchpad.net/bugs/68577 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
