How to Fix Spotify Crashing on Startup for Ubuntu
I love Spotify. If you haven’t tried it you should definitely check it out. I had been having some problems with the newer preview releases of the application on my Ubuntu machine at home. If you run into issues yourself you can try the following in terminal:
Clear cache: rm -Rf ~/.cache/spotify
If Spotify continues to crash run a “strace -e open spotify” in terminal and post it to the forums for more advanced assistance. Good luck! This fixed all of my issues so I wanted to make sure and share it in case it also helped others running Spotify on Ubuntu.
Posted in Open Source & Linux on March 12th, 2012 by Jeremy at 7:00 am with (3,888 views)
May 31st, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Thanks! I have the same setup (Ubuntu w/ spotify preview), and it started crashing upon startup. Your fix cleared it up. Do you have any idea about the whys and hows of this fix?
June 2nd, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Works! Good post, thanks.
June 2nd, 2012 at 9:53 pm
WR2 why it works, I know that the client locked up on my machine, and I killed the process. My guess is that it left the cache in an inconsistent state. Next time, I’ll pick through the cache and see what might be jacked so as to provide better feedback to the folks at Spotify.
June 4th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Thanks! That was easy and fast
June 17th, 2012 at 4:17 am
Excellent, seem’s a shame Spotify don’t solve this….it must be simple….i wouldn’t know…Thank You!
June 21st, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Thanks, great fix!! Still relevant.
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:10 am
Thanks worked great!
June 24th, 2012 at 3:32 am
Works perfect, thanks!
June 27th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Thanks!
June 28th, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Thanks! Works, and are needed, in Fedora 17 too.
July 25th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Thanks a lot! Fixes my problem! :-)
July 25th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Fixed i mean! :P
July 26th, 2012 at 9:03 am
I noticed that ~/.cache/spotify/Storage was taking up >4GB. Deleting this folder fixed the problem.
July 26th, 2012 at 10:28 am
Thank you sir!
July 26th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Thank you very much, solved the problem for me as well
July 28th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Awesome! This had been frustrating me for weeks. This worked for me right away! Thanks!
July 30th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Thanks ! Works even in Germany :D
July 31st, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Thank you, Ctrl+C > Shift+Ins = Life is good again. Only wish Spotify would make mention of this on the Linux Preview page. Last time it wouldn’t load, I fixed it with a full uninstall/reinstall.
August 1st, 2012 at 7:21 pm
Jeremy dude you rule! I didn’t even think to check the cache after I added like a bazillion music playlists. But now it correlates exactly. I have been dealing with no tunes for like 4 days now. Almost froze over. I have been running Linux since before there was a web, when it was just IRC haqr’s & BBS doods. Thanks for carrying the torch of linux knowledge & publishing fixes/tips bro much appreciated. \|4nd4|_ from #phreak chan.
August 9th, 2012 at 4:33 am
thanks, this worked. Was driving me crazy
August 12th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Great tip!
August 14th, 2012 at 1:26 am
Fixed it! thank you
September 5th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Thanks! but for me this fixes the problem once…but then it crashes again, usually within an hour of use and I’m back where I started…any ideas?
February 15th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
Thanks a lot, works perfect now!!