After starting the game with the (fresh installed) launcher the launcher closed and then opened again. A view to the Development Console told me that the game crashed.
What I expected to happen was...:
I expected the titlescreen of Minecraft to appear.
What actually happened was...:
Nothing...
Well maybe the Output of the Development Console can help you:
[12:12:37 INFO]: Minecraft Launcher 1.4.4 (through bootstrap 5) started on linux...
[12:12:37 INFO]: Current time is Jun 12, 2014 12:12:37 PM
[12:12:37 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Linux'
[12:12:37 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.version') == '2.6.32-5-686'
[12:12:37 INFO]: System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'i386'
[12:12:37 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.6.0_27'
[12:12:37 INFO]: System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Sun Microsystems Inc.'
[12:12:37 INFO]: System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'
[12:12:41 INFO]: Refreshing local version list...
[12:12:42 INFO]: Refreshing remote version list...
[12:12:45 INFO]: Refresh complete.
[12:12:47 INFO]: Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'Shildifreak'
[12:12:47 INFO]: Refreshing auth...
[12:12:47 INFO]: Logging in with access token
[12:12:50 INFO]: Getting syncinfo for selected version
[12:12:50 INFO]: Queueing library & version downloads
[12:12:52 INFO]: Download job 'Version & Libraries' started (16 threads, 26 files)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/commons-io/commons-io/2.4/commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.9/commons-codec-1.9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/mojang/authlib/1.5.13/authlib-1.5.13.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecwav/20101023/codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/libraryjavasound/20101123/libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.2.4/gson-2.2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-api/2.0-beta9/log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/sf/jopt-simple/jopt-simple/4.5/jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/java3d/vecmath/1.3.1/vecmath-1.3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/google/guava/guava/15.0/guava-15.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/sf/trove4j/trove4j/3.0.3/trove4j-3.0.3.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl/2.9.1/lwjgl-2.9.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.1/commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecjorbis/20101023/codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/io/netty/netty-all/4.0.10.Final/netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:52 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/ibm/icu/icu4j-core-mojang/51.2/icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Download job 'Resources' skipped as there are no files to download
[12:12:53 INFO]: Job 'Resources' finished successfully (took 0:00:00.014)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/sf/trove4j/trove4j/3.0.3/trove4j-3.0.3.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jutils/jutils/1.0.0/jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jutils/jutils/1.0.0/jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/google/guava/guava/15.0/guava-15.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jinput/jinput-platform/2.0.5/jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-linux.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jinput/jinput-platform/2.0.5/jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-linux.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl-platform/2.9.1/lwjgl-platform-2.9.1-natives-linux.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/ibm/icu/icu4j-core-mojang/51.2/icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jinput/jinput/2.0.5/jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/io/netty/netty-all/4.0.10.Final/netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-core/2.0-beta9/log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl/2.9.1/lwjgl-2.9.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/librarylwjglopenal/20100824/librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl_util/2.9.1/lwjgl_util-2.9.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.1/commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/java3d/vecmath/1.3.1/vecmath-1.3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/tv/twitch/twitch/5.16/twitch-5.16.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecjorbis/20101023/codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.7.9/1.7.9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.2.4/gson-2.2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/commons-io/commons-io/2.4/commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-api/2.0-beta9/log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/sf/jopt-simple/jopt-simple/4.5/jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/mojang/authlib/1.5.13/authlib-1.5.13.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecwav/20101023/codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.9/commons-codec-1.9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:53 INFO]: Attempting to download /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/soundsystem/20120107/soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'... (try 0)
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/librarylwjglopenal/20100824/librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/libraryjavasound/20101123/libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/tv/twitch/twitch/5.16/twitch-5.16.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/soundsystem/20120107/soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl_util/2.9.1/lwjgl_util-2.9.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jinput/jinput/2.0.5/jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl-platform/2.9.1/lwjgl-platform-2.9.1-natives-linux.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-core/2.0-beta9/log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[12:12:54 INFO]: Finished downloading /home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.7.9/1.7.9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
[12:12:54 INFO]: Job 'Version & Libraries' finished successfully (took 0:00:02.332)
[12:12:54 INFO]: Launching game
[12:12:54 INFO]: Unpacking natives to /home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.7.9/1.7.9-natives-4640012407618
[12:12:55 INFO]: Launching in /home/username/.minecraft
[12:12:55 INFO]: Half command: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java -Xmx512M -Djava.library.path=/home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.7.9/1.7.9-natives-4640012407618 -cp /home/username/.minecraft/libraries/java3d/vecmath/1.3.1/vecmath-1.3.1.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/sf/trove4j/trove4j/3.0.3/trove4j-3.0.3.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/ibm/icu/icu4j-core-mojang/51.2/icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/sf/jopt-simple/jopt-simple/4.5/jopt-simple-4.5.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecjorbis/20101023/codecjorbis-20101023.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/codecwav/20101023/codecwav-20101023.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/libraryjavasound/20101123/libraryjavasound-20101123.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/librarylwjglopenal/20100824/librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/paulscode/soundsystem/20120107/soundsystem-20120107.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/io/netty/netty-all/4.0.10.Final/netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/google/guava/guava/15.0/guava-15.0.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.1/commons-lang3-3.1.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/commons-io/commons-io/2.4/commons-io-2.4.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.9/commons-codec-1.9.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jinput/jinput/2.0.5/jinput-2.0.5.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/net/java/jutils/jutils/1.0.0/jutils-1.0.0.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.2.4/gson-2.2.4.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/com/mojang/authlib/1.5.13/authlib-1.5.13.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-api/2.0-beta9/log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-core/2.0-beta9/log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl/2.9.1/lwjgl-2.9.1.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/org/lwjgl/lwjgl/lwjgl_util/2.9.1/lwjgl_util-2.9.1.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/libraries/tv/twitch/twitch/5.16/twitch-5.16.jar:/home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.7.9/1.7.9.jar net.minecraft.client.main.Main
[12:12:55 INFO]: Looking for orphaned versions to clean up...
[12:12:56 INFO]: Looking for old natives & assets to clean up...
[12:13:04 INFO]: Client> [12:13:04] [main/INFO]: Setting user: Shildifreak
[12:13:04 INFO]: Client> [12:13:04] [main/INFO]: (Session ID is token:522e62a8fe17443eb8dd005d95af0ef6:c4c77e2ec0c44a3ba8724905f5c49a83)
[12:13:07 INFO]: Client> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Duplicate stat id: "TranslatableComponent{key='stat.useItem', args=[TextComponent{text='[', siblings=[TextComponent{text='tile.null.name', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=true, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=HoverEvent{action=SHOW_ITEM, value='TextComponent{text='{id:119s,Damage:0s,Count:1b,}', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}'}}}, TextComponent{text=']', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=true, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=HoverEvent{action=SHOW_ITEM, value='TextComponent{text='{id:119s,Damage:0s,Count:1b,}', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}'}}}], style=Style{hasParent=true, color=§f, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=HoverEvent{action=SHOW_ITEM, value='TextComponent{text='{id:119s,Damage:0s,Count:1b,}', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}'}}}], siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}" and "TranslatableComponent{key='stat.useItem', args=[TextComponent{text='[', siblings=[TextComponent{text='Mushroom Stew', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=true, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=HoverEvent{action=SHOW_ITEM, value='TextComponent{text='{id:119s,Damage:0s,Count:1b,}', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}'}}}, TextComponent{text=']', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=true, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=HoverEvent{action=SHOW_ITEM, value='TextComponent{text='{id:119s,Damage:0s,Count:1b,}', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}'}}}], style=Style{hasParent=true, color=§f, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=HoverEvent{action=SHOW_ITEM, value='TextComponent{text='{id:119s,Damage:0s,Count:1b,}', siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}'}}}], siblings=[], style=Style{hasParent=false, color=null, bold=null, italic=null, underlined=null, obfuscated=null, clickEvent=null, hoverEvent=null}}" at id stat.useItem.119
[12:13:08 INFO]: Client> at pg.h(SourceFile:42)
[12:13:08 INFO]: Client> at po.d(SourceFile:109)
[12:13:08 INFO]: Client> at po.a(SourceFile:60)
[12:13:08 INFO]: Client> at kl.b(SourceFile:359)
[12:13:08 INFO]: Client> at ban.<init>(SourceFile:216)
[12:13:08 INFO]: Client> at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:129)
[12:13:08 ERROR]: java.io.IOException: Stream closed
[12:13:08 ERROR]: Game ended with bad state (exit code 1)
[12:13:08 INFO]: Ignoring visibility rule and showing launcher due to a game crash
[12:13:08 INFO]: Deleting /home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.7.9/1.7.9-natives-4640012407618
PS.: After some experimenting I found out, that it works sometimes when killing the my soundserver pulseaudio before, but this time it destroys my taskbar.
You are using a very old version of java, and need to update this. Please keep in mind that OpenJDK 6 has been known to cause issues with Minecraft, and should be avoided. It is recommended you use either Oracle java, or OpenJDK 7.