IntelliJ won't start up

Does the process terminate without errors in the terminal or does it hang forever?

It terminates without errors, after 10 or 15 seconds.

Can you try running from a different user or via sudo?

With sudo it started up and I went through the introductory setup.  I don't have another user to try.

So this could be a permissions problem?

Unfortunately, it's not clear what the problem is. We had one user with the similar issue, we were trying different things and didn't solve it. On a clean Ubuntu the issue cannot be reproduced.

I wanted to look for file permission problems so I ran strace:

$ strace -ff -e trace=file "./idea.sh" 2>&1

The output ends with

[pid 12175] stat("/home/scorwin/.fontconfig", 0x7f26c9c13d00) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 12175] stat("/home/scorwin/apps/java/jdk1.8.0_144/jre/lib/fonts/fallback", 0x7f26c9c13d80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 12175] open("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/tlwg/Waree.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 234
[pid 12149] --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_ACCERR, si_addr=0x7f270a89b800} ---
[pid 12141] --- SIGALRM {si_signo=SIGALRM, si_code=SI_KERNEL} ---
[pid 12149] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12181] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12150] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12176] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12148] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12146] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12147] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12175] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12145] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12143] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12177] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12142] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12144] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12141] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12130] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12138] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12131] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12136] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12133] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12180] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12137] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12139] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12132] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12134] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12129] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12182] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12179] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12172] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12135] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12128] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12183] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
[pid 12122] +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
--- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_KILLED, si_pid=12122, si_uid=1000, si_status=SIGALRM, si_utime=296, si_stime=146} ---
Alarm clock
+++ exited with 142 +++

I ran this a couple of times, and the section before the references to SIGALRM changed, but it always ended with many processes being killed by SIGALRM.

Do you use /home/scorwin/apps/java/jdk1.8.0_144 instead of the bundled runtime? Does it help if you switch back? See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/206544879.

It's the same behavior with the bundled runtime.  I actually started with idea-IU-181.4445.78 with the bundled 64-bit JDK, and only switched to using my own JDK while trying to troubleshoot this problem.

Can you try to trace what specific processes are started and killed (and their full command lines)? But it's not clear if it's related to the problem.

I'm having the same issue on a 64 bit xenial server install with trinity (kde3) installed.

Idea only runs as root.

Not happy.

I found a better workaround. The reason starting with sudo works is that there are fewer environment variables set. In particular there is this one:
GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/scorwin/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4:/home/scorwin/.trinity/share/config/gtkrc-2.0

If this is not set IntelliJ will start up successfully for me.

I created a shell script for convenience:
$ cat startIdea.sh
#!/bin/bash
unset GTK2_RC_FILES
/home/scorwin/apps/idea-IU-182.4505.22/bin/idea.sh

The same approach works for running Android Studio.

Experienced also sigsegv when starting pycharm. I tried another jre and also a fresh download of pycharm (2018.3.5) but it kept on crashing.

➜ bin ./pycharm.sh
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f00b3b87731, pid=4341, tid=0x00007f009c2fa700
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (8.0_152-b28) (build 1.8.0_152-release-1343-b28)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.152-b28 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x3fa731] PhaseChaitin::gather_lrg_masks(bool)+0x131
#
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/paul/java_error_in_PYCHARM_4341.log
[thread 139638650844928 also had an error]
^CAborted (core dumped)

I resolved it by removing the pycharm folder in my ~:

➜ bin mv ~/.PyCharm2018.3 ~/.PyCharm2018.3_

Then it started again; seems some files got corrupted there and pycharm cant handle it.

Paul

Please report at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/JBR with /home/paul/java_error_in_PYCHARM_4341.log attached.

Hi guys,

My intellij meet the same issue after upgrade to 2019.3.3. 

sudo ./idea.sh works but ./idea.sh not. Intellij quit peacefully. 

But after I run  "strace -ff -e trace=file "./idea.sh" 2>&1", magic happened.  Intellij run without issue (but slowly with verbose log).

After Intellij stabilized and I closed the Intellij restart again without strace. My intellij works again!

so  thanks a log @Scorwin for save my day!

Ming

Same issue with PyCharm Pro 2021.1.1 on Ubuntu 20.04.

For me as well, this works with sudo.

I'm using docker containers for most of my python work and have the feeling that a container might have registered something as root.

PyCharm installed using `snap`, for what it's worth...

`strace` does not solve the issue for me, I fear.
Is there somewhere I could upload the strace log to? WIth 3.4mb it's too large for pastebin

We had several reports that Cortex XDR anti malware agent is affecting startup of our IDEs. Please try uninstalling it if you have one.

I'm not an expert, but something called *... anti malware agent* doesn't sound like a thing I'd like or should uninstall. Is there another way?

@... You may uninstall Cortex XDR anti malware agent as a troubleshooting step. In case this program really prevents IDE from start, try to add IDE to the exclusions list or something like that. Choosing another antivirus is also an option. 

It seems like Cortex XDR is not installed on my machine

Any other antivirus? 

You may share console output, strace logs and whole issue descriptions at YouTrack: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=IDEA

There is a possibility that your case is different from the one discussed in this thread. 

Nothing I've explicitly installed/ I'll make sure to open a new ticket.

Edit: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-268553

I Can open Intellj from /snap/intellij-idea-ultimate/333/bin$ ./idea.sh  in terminal but it won't start form Launcher why?? how to solve this

Ayush Khatri What do you see in idea.log when starting from launcher? Try reinstalling from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

Konstantin Annikov I see nothing in my log .... I tried reinstalling it but it didn't work ........................

this log is when I open it from terminal and closed it 

sachwini@sachwini-Inspiron-5521:~/.cache/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2021.3/log$ tail idea.log
2021-12-17 12:52:00,573 [ 460506] INFO - .impl.FileTypeDetectionService - 6 auto-detected files. Detection took 143 ms
2021-12-17 12:52:00,574 [ 460507] INFO - stubs.SerializationManagerImpl - Start shutting down /home/sachwini/.cache/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2021.3/index/rep.names
2021-12-17 12:52:00,582 [ 460515] INFO - stubs.SerializationManagerImpl - Finished shutting down /home/sachwini/.cache/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2021.3/index/rep.names
2021-12-17 12:52:00,603 [ 460536] INFO - il.indexing.FileBasedIndexImpl - START INDEX SHUTDOWN
2021-12-17 12:52:01,277 [ 461210] INFO - tellij.psi.stubs.StubIndexImpl - StubIndexExtension-s were unloaded
2021-12-17 12:52:01,606 [ 461539] INFO - il.indexing.FileBasedIndexImpl - END INDEX SHUTDOWN
2021-12-17 12:52:01,606 [ 461539] INFO - fs.persistent.PersistentFSImpl - VFS dispose started
2021-12-17 12:52:01,617 [ 461550] INFO - fs.persistent.PersistentFSImpl - VFS dispose completed
2021-12-17 12:52:01,713 [ 461646] INFO - #com.intellij.idea.Main - ------------------------------------------------------ IDE SHUTDOWN ------------------------------------------------------
2021-12-17 12:52:01,729 [ 461662] INFO - org.jetbrains.io.BuiltInServer - web server stopped

What command do you use to install it?

Do you see any errors/warnings when starting a launcher? Check the system log for the time when you start it.

Andrey Dernov I got this. I remembered that I changed the file permission and after that this happened to me... I don't know what to do next

Dec 20 10:18:15 sachwini-Inspiron-5521 systemd[2780]: Started Application launched by gnome-shell.
Dec 20 10:18:15 sachwini-Inspiron-5521 systemd[2780]: Started snap.intellij-idea-ultimate.intellij-idea-ultimate.7a39a0a2-da77-419a-8e3a-c70741ac2cbc.scope.
Dec 20 10:18:15 sachwini-Inspiron-5521 systemd[2780]: gnome-launched-intellij-idea-ultimate_intellij-idea-ultimate.desktop-21805.scope: Succeeded.
Dec 20 10:18:15 sachwini-Inspiron-5521 intellij-idea-ultimate_intellij-idea-ultimate.desktop[21805]: / has 'other' write 40777
Dec 20 10:18:15 sachwini-Inspiron-5521 systemd[2780]: snap.intellij-idea-ultimate.intellij-idea-ultimate.7a39a0a2-da77-419a-8e3a-c70741ac2cbc.scope: Succeeded.

>I changed the file permission

What permissions have you changed? 

How do you runt he launcher? 

Make sure you are installing and running it using the same user.

Have you tried to unpack the installation downloaded manually from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/ and then launch it? What result do you get in this case?

sudo chmod 755 / 
this solved my issue 

Sachwinikhatri That is a risky command. I do not recommend anyone to run it for security reasons and other unexpected sequences.