Bug 831284

Summary:	media-sound/spotify-1.1.72 (r1/r2): app doesn't display on launch
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Henhawke <chris>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) <prometheanfire>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein, kfm
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Henhawke 2022-01-16 04:46:26 UTC

upgrading spotify to 1.1.72-r1 or 1.1.72-r2 causes spotify to not display anything on launch.  processes stuck in the background...

# ps aux | grep spotify                                                                                      
chris    19169  0.0  0.0   8804  3012 ?        S    23:37   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/spotify
chris    19170  0.8  0.1  37752 20268 ?        S    23:37   0:00 /usr/bin/python3.9 /usr/lib/python-exec/python3.9/spotify-dbus.py

I tried waiting but nothing ever appeared.  Tried looking for logs, couldn't find any, sorry.  Clearing the cache didn't help but I did it anyways. :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upgrade spotify
2. close and re-open spotify
Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
spotify opens

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2022-01-16 10:45:50 UTC

Thank you for the report. We need to have all information at hand. This includes
* the complete build.log as attachment and
* paste the emerge info 
as described on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Attach_the_logs_to_the_bug_ticket

Start spotify from the command line and check, if you get messages on SDTDERR.

Comment 2 Chris Henhawke 2022-01-16 12:33:43 UTC

I get no errors.  I'm sorry that I haven't provided much information, there was none to give.  Not sure how a build log is relevant, this isn't a compilation error.  I guess someone else can file a bug if this affects more people.

Comment 3 RumpletonBongworth 2022-01-17 12:47:34 UTC

The offending script is third-party [1]. Consider installing 1.1.72-r2 and replacing line #7 of /usr/bin/spotify with the following:

python -m trace -t /usr/bin/spotify-dbus.py "$@" >"$HOME/spotify-dbus-trace.txt" 2>&1

Doing so should write out an execution trace that may help to determine why it isn't behaving as expected.


[1] https://github.com/mrpdaemon/gnome-integration-spotify/blob/master/spotify-dbus.py