SongBird 1.2 won’t start on Ubuntu 9.04: Fix

August 25th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu

256px It was strange and I was struggling to get songbird 1.2.0 to start on Ubuntu 9.04. For some reason songbird 1.2.0 won’t start on Ubuntu 9.04. I did some reading on line and found the culprit which was causing it to not start. All you have to do is to remove the package named libvisual-0.4-plugins.

In order to remove and start enjoying SongBird on ubuntu 9.04 again follow the steps:

1. Bring up the terminal by hitting ALT+f2 and typing gnome-terminal.

2. Type the following to remove libvisual-0.4-plugins

sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins

3. That’s it. Now you can enjoy SongBird again.

Note: More information about the package libvisual-0.4-plugins can be found at http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper-backports/sound/libvisual-0.4-plugins

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Apache

I was also having this same problem, but then after removing all 'libgst' files from the 'Songbird/lib' directory and removing the libvisual-0.4-plugins, I was getting;

(songbird-bin:3375): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

as an error under Terminal. But I managed to get Songbird to run by adding 'sudo -H' to the begining of my command (sudo -H Songbird/songbird).

Worked for me so I hope it helps someone!

Slave4Christ

well my songbird is dead it just wont launch and I used the command to remove those libs and it still dont work.

Liza

I love u. Really. Thank you very much.

abegely

removed libvisual-0.4-plugins but songbird still won't start

Gutterslob

Thanks mate,

This worked like a charm. Found your site through good ol Google :)

Cheers.

Ben Phelps

Thanks so much, working great now!

binar00mind

Happy that I came across this one, did not try your trick as of yet..
I only want to add that my problems started after update of
gstreamers. and i was getting error that "lame 0" cannot be loaded.
I will get back here with my results.

Glowndark

Are you sure at all, mine works just fine with libvisual and plugins installed ??? except that it launches a bit slow. but Songbird rocks!

Vivek

@GlownDark. My songbird was not launching and hence I had to look for a solution and removing libvisual worked like charm :) and hence I thought I'd share! Your slow launch could be some buggy extension! Which one's do you use?

Glowndark

MediaFlow, NowPlaying, Lyrics and some skins. If libvisual and plugins removed, will other stuffs get affected? like visualization in Rhythmbox?
XBMC?

Vivek

@Glowndark I use all those extensions myself and everything is working fine including rythmbox visualization!

SantAnna

Vivek you are right, this problem was driving me crazy.
Thank you

Hugs

Vivek

@SantAnna I am glad it helped!

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