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Works on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine, I can now remove the LD_BIND_NOW=1

What intrigues me here is (I'm not attacking anybody here):
1. why the Songbird team didn't suggest to try this
2. since it's apparently not safe to assume that all Linux users have these gst libs, isn't it possible to add a check saying "if system gst libs are present, use them, else use the ones in SongbirdFolder/lib"

Anyway, thanks for the tip and the link to the blog post. As one commenter says there, let's hope this problem "starts the necessary chatter". – ronj, on November 03, 2009 19:26

Can anybody confirm that Songbird crashes at startup after updating Pidgin to 2.6.1 PPA? If yes, any workaround?

I saw this pretty consequent pidgin update (seems they had to update gst for their XMPP video support), and right after, my dear bird refused to launch


See https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-develop... if you want to test Pidgin 2.6.1 and for the list of updated packages. I'll post the crashlog today

Thanks!

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
GStreamer update from Pidgin 2.6.1 PPA update breaks Songbird under Ubuntu 9.04/x86.

Here is the crashlog:

ronj@blob:/media/zik$ ./Songbird

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstapp.so': /usr/lib/libgstapp-0.10.so.0: undefined symbol: gst_buffer_list_get_type

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libresindvd.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libresindvd.so: undefined symbol: gst_navigation_event_parse_command

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstdeinterlace.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstdeinterlace.so: undefined symbol: gst_video_format_parse_caps_interlaced

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template bwf_audio_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template alaw_audio_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template dv_dif_video_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template jpeg2000_video_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template mpeg_audio_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template mpeg_video_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template up_video_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: invalid name template vc3_video_sink_%u: conversion specification must be of type '%d' or '%s' for GST_PAD_REQUEST padtemplate

(songbird-bin:5735): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmpegdemux.so': /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstmpegdemux.so: undefined symbol: _gst_debug_dump_mem
./.Songbird/./songbird-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10/gst/_gst.so: undefined symbol: gst_task_pool_get_type
Could not initialize GStreamer: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal