Ubuntu 8.10 64bit - Songbird 1.0 - seg faults on launch.

Thanks, that may have been part of the problem, now I get this message:

GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.18.2/glib/gmem.c:156: failed to allocate 9035750048 bytes
aborting...
Aborted

I boot between 64 and 32 bit ubuntu installations using the same home directory, and songbird worked perfectly on 32 bit, so there is a ~/.songbird2 written by a 32 bit songbird.

Ah, that is the problem, it works when the 32 bit ~/.songbird2 is renamed.

So I need to split my personality between 32 bit and 64 bit playlists?

I had also deleted the .songbird2 folder, since it was a fresh install anyhow. I though that hadn't done anything, but I guess it had something to do with it.

I only used the 32-bit version, so I can't really offer any more specific advice. It would probably be possible to have two Songbird installations (folders) with two different preferences folders, but I wouldn't know how to do that.

The getdeb version WAS working for me but it stopped working and is reporting segfaults now...what causes that? I reinstalled from getdeb again and it still won't work...
I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64. The tarball never did anything but complain about jemalloc.so not existing despite the fact that it was in the same directory. :P 1.0 just kinda died. It really did get pushed out the door more than I expected from you guys, you've been doing great stability-wise.

I too have this issue. I had install a kernel back-ports modules to get my wireless to work and now I can't run Songbird. I uninstalled and installed again and I still get the same error message

*** UPLOADING METRICS ***WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(mMediaItem) failed: file /home/steven/sbird/trunk/extensions/notifyme/components/sbINotifyMeService/src/sbNotifyMeService.cpp, line 220
Segmentation fault

UPDATE: I uninstalled Songbird, removed the songbird2 dir. reinstalled songbird. The above error message is gone, all I get is segmentaion fault and it ends

I also have this problem currently.

Running Ubuntu 8.10 64bit, and I've tried songbird 1.0 and 1.1. I'd try an older version, but can't locate one. I've tried installing via the debs, I've also tried installing via the tar directly from songbirdnest.com but both report the same errors.

Information on this error is scarce on the net, most of it leading nowhere. I've tried deleting my profile, reinstalling the app, fixing permissions on the songbird directory, and profile directory as well. all going nowhere with a fix.

Same here installed every version I can find, including nightly build, all results in the same "Segmentation fault".

Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have this exact problem on 9.04 64bit. It worked before, but then it stopped and only says Segmentation Fault. If it helps I get the same problem when trying to open thunderbird-3.0, firefox-3.5, and firefox-3.6.

Edit: Songbird: Both the .deb version and the nightly version gives me segfault. The .deb version gives me a bunch of other messages before segfault too, but not the nightly.

Forgive me for entering this in a Ubuntu posting, but I can't find any similar reports elsewhere.

I am having this problem with a newly installed Fedora 11 x86_64 - I understand that Fedora mixes 32 & 64 bits. I use the x86_64 binary from http://www.digitalruin.net/.
I was getting this error message:
/usr/lib64/songbird-1.1.2/songbird: line 134: 7833 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
I've reinstalled, deleted profiles, folders, tried other versions ie 1.1.1 & 1.1.0 and even used flac files instead of mp3's.

Reading this post made me try the i586 version - hey presto it almost worked except I get the mediacore error that an ID3 tag demuxer plugi is required - me thinks that means I need to load all the gstreamer i586 packages - I don't want to as this is meant to be an x86_64 system.

So something is wrong with x86_64 yeah? Can you wonderful Songbird people rectify whatever may be wrong?

I posted this a while ago I see. I thought I updated it. I did find a way around this error. I don't know if its the solution for everything but it worked for me. I was having some problems with the Global Menu for gnome. Oddly unrelated I uninstalled it, and then suddenly Songbird was working perfectly. Very odd.

However, I figured I'd post this up for some people so they could possibly try it and see if it solved the seg fault for them.

I'm have Fedora 11 x86_64 and... same problem...but I solved:
$sh ./songbird -safe-mode and disable all extensions...

or:
if you can get in on songbird go to Tools>Preferences...>Extensions and disble all

I'm using 9.04 54bit and I found out that removing libvisual-0.4-plugins fixes everything for me.

sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins

9.04 Jaunty, Xubuntu, 64-bit.

Nothing helps, neither libvisual-plugins removal, nor reinstallation, just nothing. I use 32bit version now, it works, though partly: song notifiers don't work and songbird sees no network.

Diagnosis: sucks.