Blender doesn't start

[ocsen]

On my system (kernel 4.19) Blender yet fails to start:

$ blender
Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txt
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

the issue is known, but what’s the solution? I’d rather not to reinstall it from aur.

[Aragorn]

@ocsen

On my system (kernel 4.19) Blender yet fails to start:

The first thing I would recommend is to install a more recent kernel. While 4.19 is technically still supported, the kernel’s graphics subsystem has evolved quite a bit since the 4.19 generation.

I would recommend using either 6.1 or 6.6. Both are LTS releases.

@ocsen

the issue is known, but what’s the solution?

If it is still the same issue as in the thread you linked to, then there are only two solutions…

• install blender through steam; or
• install the older but still supported LTS version from the AUR.

[ocsen]

Thanks, and you think there will be no way to recover the old installation even in the future?

[Aragorn]

I’m not sure what you mean by “the old installation”. Everything that’s in your home directory is of course recoverable — and you should definitely maintain a backup strategy if you haven’t got one already.

If however you are inquiring as to whether the problem will ever get remedied by upstream — i.e. Arch, which is where we import our blender package from — then your guess is probably as good as mine.

I presume that if enough people — especially so among the Arch-proper user base — are reporting the same problem, then Arch might make an effort at investigating the matter further.

[Kobold]

@ocsen

you think there will be no way to recover the old installation even in the future?

If you prefer to use a older version. i recommend/if that program is available as AppImage version.

[ocsen]

For ‘old installation’ I meant the Blender package (and its dependecies) from official repository which is currently installed on my system, but that does not launch any longer - I didn’t mean older versions of Blender.
So the problem should be addressed by Arch manteiners, but we don’t know how widespread it is among Arch and Arch-derived distros and hence weather they will estimate worth to spend time on it or not - I will wait for some time yet. Thanks again for the clarification.