Why I like Linux
Spotify for Linux is available as a preview at the moment however a few users including my good self are having problems with it.
I reported my issues in the support forum (along the a few others who are having similar difficulties), the response
"For those of you who still have problems with the 0.4.6.73 release and are familiar with GDB, can you perform the following two gdb-commands to help me pin down this issue:
1) "bt"
2) x/i $pc
and post the output?
Thanks"
Now can you ever imagine a developer on a support forum for windows software asking a mere user to run a debugger?
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For the curious...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/spotify
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb416ab70 (LWP 25759)]
[New Thread 0xb40e9b70 (LWP 25760)]
[New Thread 0xb4068b70 (LWP 25767)]
Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x084e9691 in __fixunssfdi ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x084e9691 in __fixunssfdi ()
#1 0x083838f2 in ?? ()
#2 0x0838eaac in ?? ()
#3 0x0839012b in ?? ()
#4 0x083901a3 in ?? ()
#5 0x081c76fe in ?? ()
#6 0x081ca5a3 in ?? ()
#7 0x084667fb in ?? ()
#8 0x081541ac in ?? ()
#9 0xb5ff4c76 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#10 0x08054361 in ?? ()
(gdb) x/i $pc
0x84e9691 : cvtss2sd 0x8(%ebp),%xmm0
(gdb)