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tikiking1

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Registered: 2014-01-24

Posts: 12

[WORKAROUND] Atom crashes immediately?

Starting Atom from its icon or the CLI (with or without --safe, with or without -f, before and after deleting ~/.atom and ~/.config/Atom), I'm getting a "The editor has crashed" box immediately on start, before any other window appears. This is accompanied by a core dump which, when opened in gdb, includes

Core was generated by `/usr/lib/electron/electron --type=renderer --js-flags='.
Program terminated with signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.

(I can paste the whole core dump if wanted)

This is a fresh install of Arch Linux, I've installed the base and gnome groups, plus grub, vivaldi, vlc, atom, go, and git. I'm using the linux-samus4 kernel (with -march=broadwell) instead of the stock kernel. This feels like a dependency issue, but I'm not sure where.

EDIT: Upstream rejects as distro issue.

Last edited by tikiking1 (2016-08-13 20:30:27)

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: [WORKAROUND] Atom crashes immediately?

No problem here with atom, but runnin electron segfaults here, too. I'd say, file a bug report on Arch Linux' bug tracker.

tikiking1

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Registered: 2014-01-24

Posts: 12

Re: [WORKAROUND] Atom crashes immediately?

Found an existing bug report -- apparently I was only searching in the Arch Linux tracker, rather than the community one.

Bug Report https://github.com/tensor5/arch-atom/issues/34

Related Arch Bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50357

What do I flag the title as? It's not really solved (yet), but duplicate of GitHub bug?

EDIT: I'm an illiterate, there's a workaround:

Workaround: install latest version of electron-prebuilt package from npm, atom will pick it up automatically after shell restart.

$ npm install -g electron-prebuilt

Last edited by tikiking1 (2016-08-13 20:30:05)