I have installed and reinstalled sublime 4 multiple times, and I cannot open it. I am not sure at else I can provide regarding this problem, but if someone could help me get to the bottom of it that would be great. Thanks.
MacBook Pro late-2013 (13 inch)
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 11.6
BuildVersion: 20G165
Sublime Text Build 4113
After uninstalling version 4 I reinstalled version 3 and it works as expected.
How are you installing it (using finder, command line, etc?) and how are you trying to open it?
I just updated to Sublime Text Build 4180 in ubuntu 24.04 and I’m having the same issue-
I’m having the same issue recently, it doesn’t work even in safe mode.
However it works when I completely quit sublime text. The issue happened to me only when an existing sublime window is running.
If Sublime Text is updated while it’s running you likely won’t be able to use the command line or otherwise open open a file from another application.
I’m having the same experience. I cannot open it in safe mode via alt+click or the
subl --safe-mode
Both die before I even see anything appear and there’s never any error dialog.
I have tried the latest for macOS: sublime_text_build_4180_mac.zip as well as the latest dev build (which is previous to current general release): sublime_text_build_4178_mac.zip
No difference in behavior for those.
Local machine details:
Thanks! This solved my issue.
I realized the subl version was on Sublime Text Build 4143 when the Sublime text app is 4180. Now both on the same version fixed the issue.
subl --version
Sublime Text Build 4180
So my version matches whatever is installed in my default applications folder, since the CLI is pointing within it:
command -v subl
/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl
Do you see any errors in the console (View > Show Console) after launching Sublime Text?
I’m not sure if your question about viewing the console was for me, but if so, I cannot view the UI at all since it is crashing before even appearing.
Ah ok, I got confused because this thread is about the command line tool not working - not about the whole app. Do you see a crash report in ~/Library/Caches/Sublime Text/Crash Reports/, it may be in either pending, new or completed?
OK… maybe it was solar flares or something… I am no longer having any issues with opening Sublime Text. Wild since I didn’t even reboot. So since yesterday, I have take zero actions, but today all works fine.
I hit this issue as well on the latest update from 4130->4180.
It looks like there were two installations of sublime-text on my machine for some reason and this update created an issue between them. One of them was running from here /snap/sublime-text/177/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text, and the other from here /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text. One of them was also able to auto-update, but the other couldn’t.
I think one of them was from snap, and the other from apt-get (or might be from a .deb file).
In the end, I got rid of all of them with sudo apt-get remove sublime-text, and sudo snap remove sublime-text. Then, I reinstalled through sudo apt-get install sublime-text. After this, all the processes for sublime I found consistently pointed to /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text, and the issue was gone.
