spotify-client 1:1.0.98.78.gb45d2a6b-10 from Ubuntu package crashes on Ubuntu 14.04

[RJVB]

Plan

Free

Country

France

Device

Linux computer

Operating System

Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

My Question or Issue

Todays update to 1:1.0.98.78.gb45d2a6b-10 crashes immediately when I start it (I do get to see a window). There is no debug information in the package so I cannot present a useful backtrace.

[user-removed]

Similar problem on Gentoo package which is built from this source package from Debian. For me spotify opens up but when I want to play anything it instantly crashes. Console shows only segmentation fault. 

[ZogG]

Gentoo ebuild on funtoo.  Segmentation fault when trying to play "On this device".  I can play/pause on other device from client. i think it is related to ALSA again 😕

[ZogG]

[44093.399033] Core Thread[11374]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007f30eb4672e8 error 14 in spotify[1ff000+1000]

[user-removed]

1.1.0 version is also affected

IMHO related thread:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/ALSA-problem-again-causes-crash-of-latest-linux-1-0-9...

[faf2019]

Did you tried to delete ~/.cache/spotify and ~/.cache/config ?

I had the same problem and i resolved it by doing that.

[user-removed]

yes, and it didn't help

[ZogG]

The problem is ALSA - they messed with it again (not first time according to what i see in forums)

[RJVB]

But why would only the Debian package be affected?

That could make sense but only if the other package versions (Snap, flatpak) come with their own, newer or patched ALSA libraries, and Spotify makes use of new or patched functions.

But expecting and not getting a patched library should lead to crashing on all platforms (and surely they must have testing in place to catch that), while using a function missing from an ALSA library should give a loader error, not a vague crash.