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Linux desktop client crashes on startup
Since updating to the latest version of the client, the Linux desktop client consistently crashes on first startup, and sometimes crashes again after already running.
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Hello folks,
I'm sorry that 1Password for Linux is crashing when you first first boot your device. This is a known issue that our development team is investigating and hopes to fix in a future update to 1Password. While I don't have a timeline on when a fix will be released, the fix will be noted in our release notes as soon as it is available.
As noted in this thread, the issue should only affect the first launch after boot and subsequent launches of the 1Password app should work normally. If you're seeing different behaviour then please reach out to support@1Password.com so that we can dig deeper.
-Dave
I had this same issue on Kubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. Sometimes it wouldn't start. Many times it would crash whenever I clicked on the edit button for an entry. I would usually find many instances of 1password processes running in the background without a GUI. In those situations, attempting to start the app from the launcher would result in another process but no GUI. Even killing all of the running processes wouldn't necessarily help. HOWEVER, I did notice that any time I started the app from a terminal (e.g. /usr/bin/1password) the result was a 1Password window that opened immediately. I didn't experience any issues until I backgrounded the app (using 'bg' and 'disown' commands after CTRL-z) and closed the terminal. From what I was experiencing, I think closing the terminal was the issue. The last thing I tried was changing the launcher command to redirect STDIN and STDOUT to /dev/null. This seems to have the same effect as running from a terminal command line in stabilizing the app. To do this, I change the launch command to this:
/bin/bash -c '/opt/1Password/1password > /dev/null < /dev/null'For the launcher, you have to split this into the command (bash) and its options:
Anyway, maybe it will help. I've only been testing this for a few hours, but I haven't had any crashes since.
Btw, I'm using Wayland for my desktop with NVidia drivers. 1Password was installed using apt with 1password's package repo.
