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trickreich
Asked: 2018-10-20 23:12:26 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 18.10 Slack not working

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I've updated to Ubuntu 18.10 yesterday. Now I can't find a version of Slack which isn't crashing. Tried the version from snap and also the download from the site. Has someone found a working version?

slack 18.10

5 Answers

  1. Looks as if there's problem in the underlying electron app: Every electron based app is affected atm.

    So i suggest to wait for an updated slack app and use the web interface in the meanwhile.

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  2. Looks like same issue on question I've answered early.

    Slack v3.3.1 stopped working after update Ubuntu from 18.04 to 18.10 yesterday. Tried update to v3.3.3 with no luck. Both Official Slack deb versions.

    Tried run Slack from terminal and it just prints Segmentation fault (core dumped). Based on this, Slack came back to work:

    sudo mv /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so.bad
sudo ln -s /usr/share/atom/libnode.so /usr/lib/slack/libnode.so
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  3. I had the same problem. I tried some repositories and the .deb package () without success. So, I uninstalled the application, restart (I suppose is not necessary) and installed slack by snap:

    sudo snap install slack --classic

    And... the snap installation runs correctly

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  4. Basically, glibc 2.28 causes a segfault (Fedora 29 and other latest/beta distros are affected for the most part). It should be fixed in the next release.

    In the meantime, switch to slack 3.1.1 or downgrade glibc to 2.27-3.

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  5. Has the same probleme! Launched slack on terminal and saw that it was already lauch so the app was never initialising storage. All i did was killed the slack process by doing killall slack and after that it all worked fine.

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