Spotify doesn 't start after upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04

[TheoT001]

After my upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04, Spotify doesn 't start up anymore. Nothing visible happens after 'clicking' on the application icon.

I have tried to install Spotify again, but that doesn't work because the mesaage is that it already has bene installed.

Who can help me out?

TIA,

Theo

[Peter__]

Does removing Spotify's config and cache files make any difference (it will recreate them on start):
rm -r ~/.cache/spotify
rm -r ~/.config/spotify

[TheoT001]

Hi Peter, thanks for your quick help! I have tried your suggestion, regrattably is didn't help however..

[Peter__]

Can you try starting Spotify from a terminal window (just enter 'spotify' and press enter) and see if any error messages are logged on the console?

[TheoT001]

Themessage then is:

spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Peter__]

Can you try installing libudev?

sudo apt-get install libudev1

[TheoT001]

Didn't help. This was the message

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libudev1 is already the newest version.
libudev1 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

[Peter__]

It might be worth linking libudev1 to libudev0?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/288821/how-do-i-resolve-a-cannot-open-shared-object-file-libudev-so-0...

[TheoT001]

Ay, I am afraid the link you have send is a bit to difficult to understand for a Ubuntu dummy like me ;-;

Do you mind to give me the exact text I should use in the terminal ?

[olejon]

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@Peter wrote:

Can you try installing libudev?

sudo apt-get install libudev1

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Hmm, libudev.so.0 is not available in any package for Ubuntu 13.10 either, according to packages.ubuntu.com, but Spotify works there. Haven't tried 14.04 yet, but will install it in a VM soon.

[TheoT001]

Thanks for your effort!

[TheoT001]

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@Peter wrote:
It might be worth linking libudev1 to libudev0?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/288821/how-do-i-resolve-a-cannot-open-shared-object-file-libudev-so-0...

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I have tried it but didn  succeed. take in account I didn 't really know what I was doing...

[Skanda]

I faced the same issue when I upgraded last night. Here's what I did to get it working again:

1. Completely removed spotify with an 'apt-get remove spotify-client'

2. Re-added the repository in software sources.

3. Ran apt-get update (which took forever. Am I the only one facing this issue in 14.04?)

4. Installed Spotify again with 'apt-get install spotify-client'

Hope that helps !

-Skanda

[TheoT001]

Thanks for your help, Skanda,
I have tried your solution, but after the first command I get the following response:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

[Skanda · Accepted solution]

Ah. Did you try running the commands as root using sudo?

[TheoT001 · Accepted solution]

Hey Great!!! 🙂  it worked!

After using the sudo instruction to 'apt-get remove spotify-client' everything went smoothly 🙂

Skanda, Peter and olejon, al thanks for your effort and support, you have made my day 😉

Theo

[Peter__]

Thanks for your thanks! Enjoy your music! 🙂

[DrBob89]

You should post a warning at the start of the thread to read the entire thread first.  Re-installing worked for me.

Bob

[bberdou]

sory about my ignorance, but i dont understand step n° 2!!! could you tell what does it mean??

thankss!!!

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@Skanda wrote:

I faced the same issue when I upgraded last night. Here's what I did to get it working again:

1. Completely removed spotify with an 'apt-get remove spotify-client'

2. Re-added the repository in software sources.

3. Ran apt-get update (which took forever. Am I the only one facing this issue in 14.04?)

4. Installed Spotify again with 'apt-get install spotify-client'

Hope that helps !

-Skanda

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[sohvilainen]

Me neither I didn't get that part, but I just did the first step to uninstall Spotify and then followed these instructions: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-install-spotify-in-ubuntu-12-04-12-10 The instructions are for the older LTS version, but worked perfectly for me since it installs the updates too. I hope you get it working again! 🙂