Failure to launch Atom on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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--
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--
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: 

What is the problem?

2 Answers

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

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: (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.