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Does not start on Ubuntu Bionic

#1

ST used to work on my Ubuntu machine but stopped. It was installed as a Snap, I removed it, installed as an apt package, same thing. Just exits no error messages, e.g.

14:36:50 mkruk@desktop:~/Desktop> /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --version
Sublime Text Build 4126
14:40:51 mkruk@desktop:~/Desktop> cd
14:40:54 mkruk@desktop:~> /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --version
Sublime Text Build 4126
14:40:56 mkruk@desktop:~> /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
14:40:59 mkruk@desktop:~> strace /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text 2>&1 | tail
stat("/home/mkruk/.config/sublime-text/Cache", 0x7fff29633060) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/mkruk/.config/sublime-text/Index", 0x7fff29633060) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/tmp/Sublime Text.de891461a3ae39b7ac9934ae8463beca.sock", R_OK|W_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
unlink("/tmp/Sublime Text.de891461a3ae39b7ac9934ae8463beca.sock") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
clone(child_stack=NULL, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7fab710dd350) = 20238
wait4(20238, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 20238
— SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=20238, si_uid=41283, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} —
getpid() = 20237
exit_group(0) = ?
+++ exited with 0 +++

14:42:18 mkruk@desktop:~> cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=“Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS”

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#2

When run from the command line it’s supposed to just exit after spawning the main application process. What happens when you run with --multiinstance --debug?

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