Ubuntu – Cannot start FileZilla

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I cannot start FileZilla. When I do it, nothing happen. I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling it, but no help. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.

If I start it from the command line, I see the following:

Reading locale option from /home/superuser/.config/filezilla/filezilla.xml

(filezilla:16389): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'height >= -1' failed
(filezilla:16389): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
(filezilla:16389): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'height >= -1' failed
(filezilla:16389): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
(filezilla:16389): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
(filezilla:16389): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'height >= -1' failed
(filezilla:16389): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
Program segmentation fault ( core dumped )

Best Answer

You can reset FileZilla to defaults by making sure that all copies of FileZilla are definitely closed and then running the following command:

mv -v /home/superuser/.config/filezilla/ /home/superuser/.config/filezilla_bak

Then reopen FileZilla which will build a new, clean set of local preferences. This should be enough to get around what is more than likely a bad, local configuration file.

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