Starting spotify aborts with "Ungültiger Maschinenbefehl".

[Isolator70]

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Dell Latitude D630 Intel Core Duo T7500

Operating System

MX-Linux 21.3 Wildflower XFCE

My Question or Issue

Till spotify version 1.2.45 I had no problem, beginning with version 1.2.48 spotify aborts starting with the message:

Ungültiger Maschinenbefehl

Translation: "Invalid Machine instruction"

The issue is persistent, I cannot use spotify on this Laptop anymore!

I also tried the testing version 1.2.53 from the testing repository, but no help!

Attachments:
debug*_inxi: information about affected system

debug*_strace: output of strace starting spotify

[superosprey]

All versions >1.2.45 requiring processors with AVX instruction set support. T7500 does not support this. Try to stay with 1.2.45. Sorry for the bad news.

[Isolator70]

Thanks for your helpful reply, even if it is really bad news!.

Some questions and thoughts to the Spotify Desktop Player developers team:

1. Is this a change the Spotify Desktop Player developers are aware of and the impact was clear?

2. Can it be rolled back or is there a hybrid approach to also have the Spotify Desktop Player capable running also on non-AVX CPUs?

3. According to Wikipedia the AVX instruction set was introduced in Q1 2011. This means, all CPUs before that date and also a lot of hardware, which was shipped with not-up-to-date CPUs later-on do not have this instruction set.

4. Linux users tend to keep their old hardware alive (so me) far longer than Windows users do. A Laptop or PC from 2010 (and even older) equipped with an SSD runs fine even on middleweight distros like MX-Linux - no need to put it to the junk.

So it would be great, if this topic could land in a discussion round at the Desktop Player dev team.

Staying (or downgrading) with 1.2.45 seems to be impossible for the average non-nerd Linux user, as it is not possible to install this version from the sources. I also was not able to find this version as a *.deb package. Also the Flatpak version of Spotify for Linux is affected by this problem...no good situation for Linux users.