Recently, within the last day or so my ubuntu 16 system has been having trouble with running atom from the terminal. When I just click-launch the application I don't have any problems, but the system doesn't seem to be responding when I try to run sudo atom /blah/file/blah.html Not only does the system not seem to be responding, but the system seems to be chocking on the the command as the system shuts itself off (I think the processor is over heating). Not sure why this is happening, or how to diagnose it. Any advice?
Update: I seem to be running an older version of atom, so that maybe an issue. It is
Atom : 1.12.1
Electron: 1.3.6
Chrome : 52.0.2743.82
Node : 6.3.01 Answer
I have the same problem, but when starting atom in general. I think it may be caused by
A temporary workaround which works for me is this script on Atom's GitHub page
#! /bin/bash
ATOM_DISABLE_SHELLING_OUT_FOR_ENVIRONMENT=true /usr/bin/atom "$@" &
## wait a few secs, then kill all env collecting processes
sleep 3
PIDS=`ps aux | grep 'bash -ilc command env' | awk '{print $2}'`
for i in $PIDS
do kill -9 $i echo "killed: $i"
done
