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When you try to start Songbird(in my case version 1.1.2) on Ubuntu 8.10 and if you have libvsual-0.4-plugins installed in you system it will pop-up you a crash reporting component saying that Songbird start-up failed. And if you start Songbird from the terminal you will see following lines has printed on the console.

*** glibc detected *** ././songbird-bin: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xb2d539e0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7d2b454]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_mem_free+0x21)[0xb29e9141]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0[0xb29e0407]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_plugin_get_list+0x73)[0xb29e05e3]
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4.so.0(visual_init+0x291)[0xb29efec1]
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstlibvisual.so[0xb2a8e1f4]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3a592f6]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_plugin_load_file+0x62f)[0xb3a59bad]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3a64822]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_registry_scan_path+0x135)[0xb3a649c7]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3a14a44]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3a14f30]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3a15589]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so[0xb3a15b44]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_option_context_parse+0x5b3)[0xb6b1d803]
/home/milinda/Programs/Songbird/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so(gst_init_check+0xf1)[0xb3a13d1b]
.......

If you came across this problem what you have to do is remove libvisual-0.4-plugins package from your system. Some forums posts ask you to remove libvsual-0.4-0, but don't do it. It'll remove some  other important programs in your Ubuntu system if remove libvisual. Make sure that you only remove libvisual-plugins.

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