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IMPORTANT: IF YOUR LAUNCHER DOES NOT START AFTER THE NEW UPDATE RUN rm ~/.minecraft/launcher -rf in a terminal

@andreymal, yannl35133, same here. I also solved that by removing symlink and creating a normal folder. Turns out that new versions of the launcher do not recognize symlinks for some stupid reason, which results in this weird behaviour.

I have the same problem with ~/.minecraft symlink. Replacing it with a bind mount helps.

My ~/.minecraft is a symlink. It worked well, but now it doesn't and goes in an infinite loop.

Thank you @huantian Removing "$HOME/.minecraft/launcher/" was the solution.

Alright, now it works for some stupid reason

Was able to solve the same issue as @jpegxguy by deleting the .minecraft/launcher/ directory

Same error as @jpegxguy, solved by clearing .minecraft, cd-ing into newly created .minecraft/bin directory and running launcher from there. No errors or infinite loops with this approach

Same here. @jpegxguy that's not a proper solution. I have cleared .minecraft folder and started minecraft-launcher 915-1. After downloading launcher files it closed and, according to the console output, it went into an infinite loop.

UPDATE: Solved! I downgraded to 887-2 and ran it, it updated some core files, then updated to the 917 package again. Now it runs. It seems like you need to have launched the previous version one last time before you go for the package update.

Hi, I just updated to v915 and the launcher immediately closes:

$ minecraft-launcher
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.677069597: NetQueue.cpp(157)] NetQueue: Setting up.
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.677328710: NetQueue.cpp(575)] NetQueue: worker thread started.
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.677577626: mainLinux.cpp(250)] Running launcher bootstrap (version 915)
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.679329816: PlatformLinux.cpp(44)] HOME dir (getpwuid): /home/leo
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.679376960: PlatformLinux.cpp(49)] HOME dir (env): /home/leo
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687189528: Common.cpp(32)] Native Launcher Version: 915
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687295199: Common.cpp(33)] Operating System: Linux
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687352539: Common.cpp(34)] Application Data directory: //.../.minecraft
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687412114: Common.cpp(35)] Executable Path: /.../minecraft-launcher
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687462609: Common.cpp(36)] App Directory dir: //.../bin
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687509403: Common.cpp(37)] Game data directory: //.../.minecraft
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687556896: Common.cpp(38)] Launcher dir: //.../launcher
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687607741: Common.cpp(39)] Java dir: //.../jre-x64
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687663125: Common.cpp(40)] TmpDir dir: //.../MinecraftLauncher.1000
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.687716833: Common.cpp(41)] x64: true
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688382216: mainLinux.cpp(308)] relaunchedExe: /home/leo/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher selfExe: /usr/bin/minecraft-launcher
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688445213: mainLinux.cpp(312)] Top level executable, forwarding signals.
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688650338: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '/usr' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688708936: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '///usr' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688754891: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '/home/leo' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688796238: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '///home/leo' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688842124: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '/home/leo/.minecraft' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688886683: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '///home/leo/.minecraft' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688930823: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '/home/leo/.minecraft/runtime' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.688975312: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '///home/leo/.minecraft/runtime' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689054862: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '/tmp' was added to the logging blacklist
[Debug: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689100259: SentryAPI.cpp(314)] The string '///tmp' was added to the logging blacklist
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689137205: Common.cpp(32)] Native Launcher Version: 915
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689209072: Common.cpp(33)] Operating System: Linux
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689281428: Common.cpp(34)] Application Data directory: .../.minecraft
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689366426: Common.cpp(35)] Executable Path: /.../minecraft-launcher
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689443461: Common.cpp(36)] App Directory dir: .../bin
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689530763: Common.cpp(37)] Game data directory: .../.minecraft
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689608986: Common.cpp(38)] Launcher dir: .../.minecraft/launcher
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689684625: Common.cpp(39)] Java dir: .../.minecraft/runtime/jre-x64
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689762568: Common.cpp(40)] TmpDir dir: .../MinecraftLauncher.1000
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.689838067: Common.cpp(41)] x64: true
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.699963515: mainLinux.cpp(416)] Current executable is not in game directory, update and run game directory version
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.700108088: mainLinux.cpp(430)] Attempting to start the launcher
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.700159910: mainLinux.cpp(118)] Window closing, exiting process
[Info: 2021-03-10 16:26:11.737875995: mainLinux.cpp(456)] Launcher finished...