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[Linux] Launcher opens and closes immediately

A topic by shinix created Feb 20, 2022 Views: 1,238 Replies: 3
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Hi, so last week or so it was working perfectly, but for some reason it stopped working. I did install it using aur itch package. Remove and reinstalled, download it from the itchio page, and in all of them the same issue appears. I did remove the config/itch config but I don’t know what else to do. I did launch it from the terminal and I also did not see any error. Any idea? Can’t find anything on the internet about this issue. Thanks.

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Are you using an Arch based / rolling release distribution? Last week there was an update to glibc that broke a lot of electron apps. I don't have a solution for it other than downgrading to before the update goes out or waiting until the itch client gets updated with a newer electron version. (Arch repo archive on 2022/02/14 works for me)

Here's a github issue with a bit more info
https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/2771

Edit:

turns out you can run itch with the argument --no-sandbox as a temporary workaround

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Your edit really helped me out. Thanks!

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Thanks a lot! This works in Fedora as well. I hope it gets fixed soon