Blank spotify client: Attempting to run unsupported native service: /usr/share/spotify/content_ren

[handelhoven]

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada 

Device

Asus FW series

Operating System

Ubuntu 18.04

My Question or Issue

On startup, the main window displays but it is a dark blank. 

Starting from terminal gives the message:

Attempting to run unsupported native service: /usr/share/spotify/content_renderer

Journal has the entry :

Oct 12 05:09:42 matenm kernel: traps: spotify[29503] trap int3 ip:7fecd483a643 sp:7ffcdf9d3e30 error:0 in libcef.so[7fecd4100000+53f1000]

  Installed using Debian install from https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/. As the installation begins there is a message about recommended packages, one of which is prohibited by the message parser a ffm mpeg extra 56. Odd that it is not permitted in the community but yet is suggested by the installer. Explanation of that will be interesting. 

Recommended packages:
  libavcodec-ffmpeg56 
 libavcodec54
 libavcodec-extra-54 
libavformat-ffmpeg56
 libavformat54

However the 18.04 repositories have no installation candidates for these packages. 

I am running spotify client without issue in Debian 9, and in another 18.04 machine so this appears to be particular to this configuration. Any idea how to fix? 

Thanks very much. 

[handelhoven]

Actually it looks like the parser didn't like the inclusion of the field separator that the installer uses. It was not reacting to the package name. Sorry.