[SOLVED] atom libc-2.31.so segfault in ubuntu 18.04

Issue

atom worked smoothly in my Dell Latitude 5410 running Ubuntu 18.04. Suddenly it won't open and looking at tail -F /var/log/syslog I got a libc-2.31.so segfault:

Jan 15 03:22:17 enrico-dell-latitude-5410 kernel: [ 1719.307314] atom[6202]: segfault at 1 ip 00007f98b04ec7b8 sp 00007fff83d94e68 error 6 in libc-2.31.so[7f98b0383000+178000]

Does anybody got a clue about how to solve this and/or investigate this segfault deeper?

Solution

I have the same issue on a HP computer running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS.

EDIT: I do not currently have enough reputation to comment or upvote, but the comment from @zesaver helped me. I did the following:

1. Remove Atom using snap

$ sudo snap remove atom

2. Go on the Atom tutorial page section Installing Atom on Linux subsection Debian and Ubuntu (deb/apt) , follow the instructions, namely

$ wget -qO - https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom

And it works !

Answered By - ArnoV