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kylepotts

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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Songbird [Solved]

For the longest time I haven't been able to get songbird running. We have 5 different packages for it, and even a work around for it. I really like songbird, and really want to use it.

Last edited by kylepotts (2010-01-12 04:15:29)

BetterButterBuddha

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Registered: 2008-10-11

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Re: Songbird [Solved]

I didn't have any problems with the AUR for the latest bin, and I installed it just last night... what are your troubles, exactly?

kylepotts

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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Re: Songbird [Solved]

(songbird-bin:8163): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/opt/songbird/gst-plugins/libgstpulse.so': libpulse.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/songbird/./songbird-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-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
[kyle@arch-desktop xulrunner]$

Thats the error I get when I start songbird in Terminal

jaydoc

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From: Chennai/Birmingham,AL

Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 89

Re: Songbird [Solved]

try this

Possible workaround for those having gstreamer issues:
export LD_BIND_NOW=1

found it on AUR for songbird-nightly. i don't understand what it does, but it worked for me. when i was having the same issue

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kylepotts

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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Re: Songbird [Solved]

Sweet it works. Thank you!

P.S. I made a bash script to load songbird instead of typing it in the terminal.

 #!/bin/sh
export LD_BIND_NOW=1
cd /opt/songbird
./songbird