RStudio crashes on startup. Fails to start R.

RStudio IDE
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Hi all. First-time poster here so sorry if this has already been addressed. R refuses to start in RStudio. Crash details below. Anyone with ideas how to fix it? I've tried re-installing RStudio, reinstalling R, removed .Rprofile and .RData. None of that worked. Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Simone.

R Session Startup Failure Report

RStudio Version

RStudio 2024.12.1+563 "Kousa Dogwood " (27771613, 2025-02-02) for Ubuntu Jammy

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) rstudio/2024.12.1+563 Chrome/126.0.6478.234 Electron/31.7.7 Safari/537.36

Error message

[No error available]

Process Output

The R session exited with code 1.

Error output:

[No errors emitted]

Standard output:

[No output emitted]

Logs

/home/simoneb/.local/share/rstudio/log/rsession-simoneb.log

2024-11-19T02:34:22.863324Z [rsession-simoneb] WARNING ASSERTION FAILED: !posix::pthread_mutex_lock(&m); LOGGED FROM: void rstudio_boost::recursive_mutex::lock() /opt/rstudio-tools/x86_64/boost/boost_1_83_0/include/boost/thread/pthread/recursive_mutex.hpp:108
2024-11-19T02:34:22.864248Z [rsession-simoneb] WARNING ASSERTION FAILED: !posix::pthread_mutex_unlock(&m); LOGGED FROM: void rstudio_boost::recursive_mutex::unlock() /opt/rstudio-tools/x86_64/boost/boost_1_83_0/include/boost/thread/pthread/recursive_mutex.hpp:113
2024-11-19T02:34:22.864248Z [rsession-simoneb] WARNING ASSERTION FAILED: !posix::pthread_mutex_unlock(&m); LOGGED FROM: void rstudio_boost::recursive_mutex::unlock() /opt/rstudio-tools/x86_64/boost/boost_1_83_0/include/boost/thread/pthread/recursive_mutex.hpp:113
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A few questions:

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System: Linux 6.11.0-24-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 14 18:13:56 UTC 2025

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Yes! doing


mv ~/.local/share/rstudio ~/.local/share/rstudio-backup

and then restarting RStudio has worked. Thankyou for the pointer to re-setting.

Thanks again,

Simone.