Latest Spotify Snap app update crashes Ubuntu with illegal instruction, core dumped

[feipoa]

The Ubuntu snap store just updated my Spotify version to 1.2.48.405.gf2c48e6f and the application won't open. Terminal states this error:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (failed to map segment from shared object): ignored.
Gtk-Message: 03:25:59.003: Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it.
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

I had been using Spotify just a few weeks ago without issue.  I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Both my desktop systems with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS also experience the same error (app won't open).

[camparosa]

Had the same problem on Ubuntu 24.04 on a laptop dedicated to Spotify (and Rhythmbox). Finally succeeded after many other tries by doing a fresh install of Linux Mint and installing Spotify-client from the repository which turned out to be 1.2.37.701.ge66eb7bc (synaptic states that the newest version is 1.2.50.etc) . 1.2.37 works, so maybe download it from the Mint download site; see message from talent2025 further on to see where and how.

[ziergorille]

Same as here, but stranger things are that the snap app starts on my laptop running Ubuntu 22.04, but not on my desktop running 24.04 - and I'm only affected since November 27 with version 1.2.50.335.g5e2860a8.

Purging, reinstalling and deleting cache only changed the behaviour from starting no window at all into briefly starting a black spotify app window which crashes immediately.

I just update my laptop to 24.04 in order to see if I can make a running setup broken.

Really, this is my life as a system administrator's most crucial app, my wrapped 2024 told me I listened 77,400 minutes to great music, althoug 2 percent of the world's population even exceed my love for music exzessively.

But did the Gods really assume I wouldn't have a streaming device I can operate via smartphone?

If you like music, you like music and as a system admimnistrator, I give a darn about my pictures and useless data - but I certainly won't have a single point of failure concerning music. 😉

But they show me I'm just human - spotify >$HOME/spotify-dump.txt 2>&1 results in an empty file of size 0. Only comment after issuing the command is "invalid machine command".

Well, I shut up and try being pretentiously humble before I risk a **bleep** nose. I'm not Marilyn Manson after all. 🙂

[hifron]

Maybe related that GNOME pruned old GL1 graphic stack, but snap remove and install MAYBE make it start again with errors?

Maybe also related with .desktop paths changed...

[seanhold3n]

If you use snap, you can install the most recent working version using `snap install spotify --revision 79` (rev 79 = 1.2.45.454.gc16ec9f6).  Then prevent snap refreshes from upgrading spotify using `snap refresh --hold=forever spotify`.  That's what worked for me, at least.