Ubuntu 19.04 deb package segfault

[yuusou]

Plan Premium

Country US

Device Laptop

Operating System Ubuntu 19.04

My Question or Issue

Spotify is crashing with the latest update (1.1.5); rolling back to 1.0.98 solved the issue.

The issue seems to be with curl and gnutls, though I don't want to post logs because they're quite revealing I believe.

[dinandmentink]

Can confirm on Spotify version 1.1.5.153 and ubuntu 19.04. Client won't start on multiple machines.

[carlihland]

Confirmed, Ubuntu 19.04

[FabiG15]

I have the same problem on both my devices:

Notebook with Ubuntu 19.04 (KDE)

and PC with Ubuntu 19.04 (Gnome)

Thread 26 "Curl Thread" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

[andreaso84]

Switching to the snap package solved the problem for me.

snap install spotify

[carlihland]

Out of scope. This ticket refers the Deb package.

But can confirm that the snap works.

[moemel]

I'm encountering the same bug on a Laptop with Ubuntu 19.04

@yuusou: could you tell me how to roll back to the previous version. Couldn't find the old package in my /var/cache/apt/archives folder neither online. 

Since the snap package doesn't scale properly on my 4k screen, I have to rely on the debian package.

Thanks for your help 🙂

[perja]

same segmentation fault on 2 ubuntu 19.04 machines. have not checked on 18.04

[Juanttc]

Same problem for me after upgrading my Ubuntu this morning.

[hjalves]

Same

[Wilkolicious]

Here's another "same" comment

[carestad]

Yep. Segfaults in 19.04 after update yesterday.

[carestad]

That being said, does anyone have the .deb for the previous version? The APT repo seems to have been purged for previous versions (thanks, Spotify).

[yuusou]

Googled and took a risk on a mirror. 

If you're interested on risking the mirror, here's the URL:

http://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/spotify/pool/non-free/s/spotify-client/spotify-client_1.0.98.78.gb45d2...

To downgrade, simply install it with dpkg and hold it so it doesn't get updated:

sudo dpkg -i spotify-client_1.0.98.78.gb45d2a6b-10_amd64.deb
sudo apt-mark hold spotify-client

Otherwise, use snap for now and deal with the slowness. 

[thePiet]

Same here. Pretty annoying. Ubuntu 19.04, Spotify version 1.1.5.153.gf614956d, Copyright (c) 2019, Spotify Ltd. 

I thought I would use the web player as an alternative, but I have to enable some DRM stuff before it will play any music. Even more annoying.

[mrvanes]

The funny thing is, starting the web player in a (chrome) browser has now helped me twice starting the desktop client succesfully afterwards?

And a bit more information about the segfault:

Curl Thread[26661] general protection fault ip:7fb096ed96b1 sp:7fb02bffc888 error:0 in libcurl-gnutls.so.4.5.0[7fb096eae000+60000]

[Fredrik_Kedduh]

I solved the problem installing the following package:

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module

[mrvanes]

That doesn't work, for me. And on a sidenote: I managed to segfault Spotify after logging in to the web player, so that turned out to be a red herring as well.

[jeroenpraat]

When debugging with gdb, I get this:

Thread 27 "Curl Thread" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fff6f7fe700 (LWP 30735)]
0x00007ffff7e6fda7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4

[jeroenpraat]

Installing the flathub package works (not a fan of snap, cause of being distro-centric).