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atom fails to run on Debian; issue resolved with '--no-sandbox' option
When I try to run atom from the menu or the command line it simply fails to run. From the command line nothing happens at all, no output. This happens with Debian/Buster (10) and Debian/Sid (unstable).
$ snap info atom name: atom summary: A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. publisher: Snapcrafters store-url: https://snapcraft.io/atom contact: https://github.com/snapcrafters/atom/issues license: unset description: | Atom is a free and open source text editor that is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core.
This snap is maintained by the Snapcrafters community, and is not necessarily endorsed or officially maintained by the upstream developers. commands:
- atom.apm
- atom snap-id: Lf1MF6tizzusVuA6l13ETyH5VDXxwA0D tracking: latest/stable refresh-date: 7 days ago, at 16:37 MST channels: latest/stable: 1.47.0 2020-05-21 (252) 236MB classic latest/candidate: ↑ latest/beta: 1.47.0 2020-05-21 (252) 236MB classic latest/edge: 1.47.0 2020-05-21 (252) 236MB classic installed: 1.47.0 (252) 236MB classic
Looking at the syslog there are messages like this when trying to launch atom:
Aug 12 16:51:34 host kernel: [19742.969706] traps: atom[1489839] trap int3 ip:55c856dc7627 sp:7ffef6244a60 error:0 in atom[55c854ea3000+5024000]
It is possible to launch atom using the '--no-sandbox' option:
$ /snap/bin/atom --no-sandbox
As a workaround I created a Bash alias:
alias atom="/snap/bin/atom --no-sandbox"
which requires that atom be launched via the command-line.
Other people have suggested editing the atom .desktop file, however since that file is dependent upon the specific version of atom that is installed and will be updated frequently it is not a good idea to edit it.