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Really. I got 99 ubuntu bugs but Telegram ain't one.

Once in a while I got a blank screen opening Telegram, but closing it and open it again solves the problem.

Are you running OTA-15?



Yup, OTA-15. I've restarted it a few times, and it just gives me a white screen.


First check you're running the last Telegram version, that's 2.3.36.2

Second, have you tried to delete the cache (.cache/com.ubuntu.telegram)? That will erase your secret chats too, so you can make a copy before deleting it.


Yup, latest version. I tried clearing the cache and no change. Since I was in console, I just checked syslog and I'm getting a dbus DENIED. I'll poke at it when I have more time, but I wonder if they need to fix up their apparmor perms.

Curious as to why your getting a different result though.

EDIT: I'd also be curious as to your opinion of Touch in general?

My opinion: I love it. I'm not a huge fan of Unity, or Ubuntu, and it's definitely in the beta stage. I like that most of the problems that I have were solvable on my own via shell-script or whatever hacks I come up with.


Oh sh*t I'm just remembering now a problem some people had with lock files. I thought it was fixed [0].

In that thread someone said deleting .config/com.ubuntu.telegram/<number>/auth.lock solved the problem with Telegram not starting [1].

So look for .lock file/s and delete it/them.

I still love Debian way more than Ubuntu, but I think they're doing a great work with Touch.

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-...

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-...


Hmmm.... I don't have any lock files. I'll dig into it when I get more time. thanks




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