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.

[asbjornf]

I noticed the same in gdb.

Seems like the issue is somewhere where spotify uses curl for its https communication.

[jeroenpraat]

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

[Fredrik_Kedduh]

I solved the problem installing the following package:

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module

[freddez]

The package was already installed for me, but a

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libcanberra-gtk-module

(temporally?) fixed the problem

[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.

[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]

[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.

[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).

[Wilkolicious]

Here's another "same" comment

[hjalves]

Same

[Juanttc]

Same problem for me after upgrading my Ubuntu this morning.

[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 🙂

[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. 

[-7qqean69_hre]

Works nicely.

[perja]

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

[andreaso84]

Switching to the snap package solved the problem for me.

snap install spotify

[dmaroulidis]

I have the same problem with the snap package too. Ubuntu 19.04, amd64.

[soursop]

The libgnutls30_3.6.8-2_i386.deb and libcurl3-gnutls_7.64.0-4_amd64.deb packages seem no longer available, so I ended up installing the following packages on Ubuntu 19.0 to make it work:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.65.3-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnutls28/libgnutls30_3.6.9-5_i386.deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnutls28/libgnutls30_3.6.9-5_amd64.deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libt/libtasn1-6/libtasn1-6_4.14-3_amd64.deb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libt/libtasn1-6/libtasn1-6_4.14-3_i386.deb

[stoatwblr]

Except snap is _not_ (yet) the default installer on Ubuntu, so anyone wanting to stick with apt will use the deb package.

[the_furai]

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@stoatwblr wrote:

Except snap is _not_ (yet) the default installer on Ubuntu, so anyone wanting to stick with apt will use the deb package.

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Yeah, TBH, I don't like snap packages at all. If there's deb avaialable I'll always go and choose it over anything else.