Download new launcher and also tried the https://launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.tar.gz
I am still getting a persistent error on initial run.
Steps to reproduce .deb package
uninstall using existing mincraft using Eddy package manager for popOs
clear out my .minecraft folder
clear out my /tmp folder
install new .deb minecraft
Launch Minecraft from launcher
gui status pops up and progress bar get to "updating"
status gui goes away and nothing launchers
checking .minecraft logs it always finishes on the initial run as following
[Error: 2021-03-16 13:30:44.083081382: SettingsManager.cpp(106)] : Deserializing: * Line 1, Column 1
Syntax error: value, object or array expected.[Error: 2021-03-16 13:30:44.083099486: SettingsManager.cpp(106)] : Deserializing: Expected object
[Error: 2021-03-16 13:30:44.083109505: SettingsManager.cpp(111)] Failed parsing main configuration file: .../.minecraft/launcher_settings.json
nick@pop-os:~/.minecraft$ ll
total 96
drwxrwxr-x 3 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x 32 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 73173 Mar 16 09:30 bootstrap_log.txt
drwxrwxr-x 5 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 launcher/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 7692 Mar 16 09:30 launcher_log.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 121 Mar 16 09:30 launcher_settings.json
Since the latest update i now see a
and i do see an error near the beginning of the log about the configuration
[Error: 2021-03-16 13:30:36.079290715: Settings.cpp(40)] Failed to determine configuration file size: No such file or directory
Also here is launcher dir. the contents of bootstrap.version print out `921`
nick@pop-os:~/.minecraft/launcher$ ll
total 233492
drwxrwxr-x 5 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 ./
drwxrwxr-x 3 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 3 Mar 16 09:30 bootstrap.version
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 205889 Mar 16 09:30 cef_100_percent.pak
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 282925 Mar 16 09:30 cef_200_percent.pak
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 1324674 Mar 16 09:30 cef_extensions.pak
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 1949947 Mar 16 09:30 cef.pak
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nick nick 1632560 Mar 16 09:30 chrome-sandbox*
drwxrwxr-x 2 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 icons/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 10518160 Mar 16 09:30 icudtl.dat
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nick nick 162397568 Mar 16 09:30 libcef.so*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nick nick 1842688 Mar 16 09:30 libEGL.so*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nick nick 28873496 Mar 16 09:30 libGLESv2.so*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 24082600 Mar 16 09:30 liblauncher.so
drwxrwxr-x 2 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 locales/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nick nick 5702008 Mar 16 09:30 minecraft-launcher*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nick nick 51306 Mar 16 09:30 snapshot_blob.bin*
drwxrwxr-x 2 nick nick 4096 Mar 16 09:30 swiftshader/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nick nick 171634 Mar 16 09:30 v8_context_snapshot.bin*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nick nick 8 Mar 16 09:30 .version
deleting launcher_settings.json then restarting the launcher produces the same file and same error.
[Error: 2021-03-09 12:48:38.429041814: SettingsManager.cpp(106)] : Deserializing: * Line 1, Column 1
Syntax error: value, object or array expected.
Here is the latest logs from newest launcher downlaod