spotify crash on elementary OS

Question

when I try to start spotify it opens a black window with spotify, and shuts straight down. Running it from Terminal I get following error:

FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(445)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye. Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Any tips on how to fix this, or knowladge to what is the orgin of the problem?

Answer 1

You can add --no-zygote when launching

spotify --no-zygote

If you're still getting black screen then try disabling gpu rendering, for that just add the following flags

spotify --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer

If any of the case works. Then you can simply apply these flags on the .desktop file of the application. it is usually located at /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop