Songbird will no longer start?

Yes, I have rebooted my system multiple times. Songbird is still not in the processes list (just checked again). At one point when it was working, Songbird was using 1700 MB of RAM (I have 2.5GB total). I was in the process of importing an iTunes library when it crashed. I clicked the restart button and have been getting the process message ever since regardless of reboots or uninstall/reinstall attempts.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Hm... When you delete your profile Folder, uninstall the program and then do a reboot, there should be nothing left of songbird to confuse anything.

After you have done that, you could re-download and re-install the whole shebang.
I hope there's nothing wrong with your ITunes library now... Have you tried to run Itunes again, to look, if that works, as it should?

I was thinking the same thing. Deleting the profile and the app and then rebooting should leave nothing, but here I am still, haha. I will attempt once again after posting this message.

I was honestly hoping to avoid installing iTunes this go 'round with the new install of XP. I don't have it installed at all right now. I have a backup of my library on an external HDD so if it did do something drastic, I should be covered anyway.

Ok. You shouldn't have to install itunes then.
But it simply can't be, that songbird is still "running", when you did a reboot.
There are no auto-start processes from songbird, like say anything you install from google, or Apple or some such, which add services, that automatically run on startup.

Odd behavior to say the least. Only thing that comes to mind is a shot .dll or some other process, that got fried somehow, which I can't imagine.

Are there processes using much memory or much cpu, when you boot and started nothing yet?

Okay, I don't know what happened to cause this issue exactly, but Songbird is working normally now. As I stated, I was working with a completely fresh install of Windows XP Pro with SP3 (apart from an install of Firefox, of course).

I ended up completely deleting the "Songbird2" directory and all of its' contents in my application data folder (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data.) I then uninstalled it and rebooted my system. I reinstalled Songbird from a fresh download and it came right up after that. I am still having some issues getting my iTunes library to import properly, but that is another problem entirely.

Something in that folder was preventing Songbird from running or causing it to think that the process was already running regardless of the fact that I had uninstalled and reinstalled the application completely a few times.

Strange indeed.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete
Task Manager (skip this step if a menu doesn't appear)
Processes
Under description tag, find Songbird
Right Click and End process tree

Rajan, it is evident that you did not even bother to fully read my original post wherein I state that Songbird could not be found on the process list at all either by name or description.

I have the same problem as Whatafreak with the same error message: "Songbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Songbird process, or restart your system."

I've deleted my profile, rebooted my computer, and checked the task manager multiple times - Songbird is not listed there, neither as a task nor as a process.

Is there anything what can be done apart from deleting the software and installing it again? Is there a log file I can send to the developers? Is there a crash dump I can send?

I 'm portuguese (sorry for the bad inglish)
The same mensage appear to me to!
"Songbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Songbird process, or restart your system."
But there is a difference (or more ) I'm using UBUNTU. And I never can't oppen Songbird.
Could be a problem of space in virtual memory?

Same problem, linux mint (It's pretty much ubuntu).
0.7.0 with default settings.

No 'songbird' process, fresh install and reboot.
Attempted multiple times, only worked the first time.

When I open the System Monitor there is no process, I launch the application, the process shows up, shows the message and leaves when I click close.

Danfergo and I share the same issue.
I don't wanna Amarok, but I need to listen to some music.
Halp plz?

Try going into command prompt and typing "taskkill /f /im songbird.exe". If it says Success: Process Terminated, then there's your problem solved. If it says that no such process exists, then it's something else. Hope I helped.

Why is this marked solved? It's still happening to me. And I don't want to wipe my whole folder and reinstall, i have tons of song ratings and playlists I'd like to keep, and SB doesn't write ratings to metadata, right? It keeps them in a songbird file.

Skaramuche is right. This problem should not be marked "solved."

I have the same problem in Ubuntu. Whenever my internet connection is dropped and Songbird is playing something, it hangs and I have to force it to quit. When I try to start it back up again, I get the same error message, and cannot get it to start again until I restart my computer. There is no "songbird" process listed either in the System Monitor. It's a pain having to restart my computer every time Songbird does this.

By the way, I'm using 1.0, which *should* be a stable version...

Has a clean work around been identified for this issue?

I am experiencing it with
Version: Songbird 1.1.1, Build 1018 (20090309144747)
on Ubuntu 8.04.

I got the app working by deleting all profile info. Simply "sudo rm -r .songbird2/" in the user folder under home. Though the app is up and running I have to reload all my profile info which is a pain.

then don't remove all the profile but just the lock ;)

go to your .songbird2/pphokiep.default directory and remove the ".parentlock" file, that's all ;)