The app crashes on Debian due to HW acceleration

[SSoares]

The string language='en' doesn't exist in prefs file.

[rfrail3]

It's hard to belive, but this works sometimes:

while true; do spotify && exit; done

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[HarvHou]

I'm having a similar problem on Ubuntu 18.04 using the MATE desktop environment:

$ spotify --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer
[1020/210753.085523:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(439)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

As you can see, I tried the --disable-gpu command, and the Chromium command --disable-software-rasterizer, but with very little success. Also, the times it does work, it tells me that I'm offline!

[SciBoy]

I'm on Archlinux and I have the same problem. Sometimes I can start Spotify, though, and recently I noticed in the .config/spotify/prefs-file that the user name was in all lower-case. I changed it and then spotify started. But I fear that this is only a coincidence.

[blazemore]

Same issue, no solution. Sometimes rebooting helps. There is no pattern.

Once it decides it's going to stop working for a session, that's it.

Sometimes it will open but it's just a black screen.

Most of the time it's this:

$ cat /etc/issue.net
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
$ spotify --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer
[1206/122933.629502:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(439)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
[1] 13440 trace trap (core dumped) spotify --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer

[blazemore]

Here is a screenshot showing the black screen.

[qsxefv123]

try spotify --no-zygote

[hal4ed]

Thanks a lot.

spotify --no-zygote

works for me well.

[Ottanta]

With MX Linux MX-19.3 64-bit, based on Debian 10 Buster:

- in file /$HOME/.config/spotify/prefs I've changed to "false" the value of app.autostart-configured=true
- I've started the program with parameter --disable-gpu

This has unlocked Spotify, and now the program runs without problems in graphical mode

[erickariuki]

Try running
spotify --no-zygote
It worked for me