RStudio hangs, won't start on Ubuntu 22.04LTS (R compiled from source)

Question

Just another post about RStudio does not start.

I'm using Ubuntu Linux 22.04LTS "jammy". Since the new R version (currently 4.2.0) wasn't available in the repositories for almost two weeks, I compiled and installed it from source.

Among other things, from configuring options I chose with shared libraries as RStudio desires.

./configure --enable-R-shlib

I then simply used make with the default settings, so that R can be found under /usr/local/bin/R.

I'm using both VSCode and RStudio. In VSCode, R works like a charm, while RStudio now won't even start. Since the window won't close and I have to kill it, it might be suspended in some sort of endless loop.

I have no software firewall enabled, and I only have one libR.so located at /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libR.so.

The "explanations" on community.rstudio.com were not very helpful. Also the official support suggestion resetting didn't work, and their explanation how to force RStudio to use a specific R version is Windows-biased.

I should add that I have also updated Ubuntu to the new version. Actually all settings should have been taken over, but maybe it's an issue with permissions. But then I am not sure which permissions should be changed.

I appreciate any advice on how to solve the problem.

Edit

When I start rstudio from terminal, I get the empty window shown above, no errors, the following output, and nothing else happens:

$ rstudio
TTY detected. Printing informational message about logging 
configuration. Logging configuration loaded from '/etc/xdg/xdg-
ubuntu:/etc/xdg/rstudio/logging.conf'. Logging to '/home
/jay/.local/share/rstudio/log/rdesktop.log'.

However:

$ cat home/jay/.local/share/rstudio/log/rdesktop.log
cat: home/jay/.local/share/rstudio/log/rdesktop.log: No such file or directory

Answer 1

rstudio --no-sandbox

Type this into your terminal and it will boot up nicely.