Can't reproduce:

[~] atom &
[1] 5709

Then it launches.

Here's what I'm getting, atom doesn't launch. I have tried now with all the latest updates. I have asked about this on #Solus channel earlier, @ikey has the same issue.

I have the same issue

Some more info. Root can open it.
Related issue: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/3056

May be related to how solus uses sudo as they mention there. Or something else completely :)

Update: I don't know what I changed, but not even sudo can open atom now

@usillos it seems like you can do it only once. I guess you will be able to do it again after rebooting.

I got it to work, but (surprisingly for solus) it seems atom is out of date and most plugins just don't work.

@usillos, yup, I think it's better to update atom first, who knows, maybe the bug will disappear :)

It is intentionally "out of date". They haven't landed an apm version with Nodejs 7.x support, so that means an Atom build will fail.

• The person that maintains Atom.

After update to 1.12.8 the issue is seem to be resolved.