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I have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and installed Atom following this post. Upon launching from the icon, the window opens but remains blank and then crashes within few seconds. On terminal I get:

$ atom
/usr/bin/atom: line 195: 30027 Illegal instruction     (core dumped) nohup "$ATOM_PATH" --executed-from="$(pwd)" --pid=$$ "$@" > "$ATOM_HOME/nohup.out" 2>&1
[30027:0429/141844.105294:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(439)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
--2022-04-29 14:18:44--  https://atom.io/crash_reports
Resolving atom.io (atom.io)... 20.119.16.4
Connecting to atom.io (atom.io)|20.119.16.4|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 204 No Content
2022-04-29 14:18:45 (0.00 B/s) - ‘/dev/fd/4’ saved [0]


Unexpected crash report id length
Failed to get crash dump id.
Report Id: 
--2022-04-29 14:18:45--  https://atom.io/crash_reports
Resolving atom.io (atom.io)... 20.119.16.4
Connecting to atom.io (atom.io)|20.119.16.4|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 204 No Content
2022-04-29 14:18:47 (0.00 B/s) - ‘/dev/fd/4’ saved [0]


Unexpected crash report id length
Failed to get crash dump id.
Report Id:

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    Does this happen also if you install through other sources? I mean, have you tried the deb package in their website (atom.io) or maybe installing via flatpak?
    – Cecilia Lopes
    Apr 29, 2022 at 12:48
  • You probably manually added the Atom repo, which still uses Atom 1.60 (on the Electron 9 framework) The snap package is probably more up to date. Electron 9 is end of life. Also see github.com/atom/atom/issues/23608#issuecomment-1096647208
    – Bart
    Jul 1, 2022 at 14:26

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I had the same problem. Atom worked after uninstalling it sudo apt purge atom and installing it with snap sudo snap install atom --classic

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I had a similar problem (On Kubuntu 22.04). In my case the problem was fixed by executing Atom with the --no-sandbox parameter. Like this:

atom --no-sandbox

I think it's a problem with Electron, because a similar error occurred in another Electron-App. I took the solution from this GitHub issue: https://github.com/ebkr/r2modmanPlus/issues/735 (I know that this isn't atom, but this has shown up if I searched the error)

In my case it's also showing some errors and asking me for the user-password, I just canceled it and closed the errors and Atom just worked flawlessly.

I hope that helps.

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I encountered this same issue after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04. I found that @Bart comment overcame the reported issue, i.e. type in commandline atom --in-process-gp instead of atom. However, this meant that the Atom application will still not work when the atom.desktop icon is clicked on.

I found that Atom installed via Flatpak worked. The installation commands used were:

sudo apt install flatpak
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
sudo flatpak install flathub io.atom.Atom

To run atom via commandline I typed:

flatpak run io.atom.Atom

Also clicking on the atom.desktop icon worked.

Having said the above, I also need to highlight here that the Atom is sunsetting. Consequently, it is best to stop using Atom moving forward and start migrating to other text editors to build software.

To uninstall Atom via Flatpak:

sudo flatpak remove io.atom.Atom
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