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Burp Suite Community Edition won't start

Razored | Last updated: Apr 17, 2020 08:13PM UTC

I've been using Burp Suite on my Ubuntu computer for a couple of months, but for some reason it has stopped working. I don't know why - I was using it, then it crashed, stopped working, and since then I haven't been able to use it. When I try to use Burp, it goes through the two initial screens okay. But when I click on the Start button, that's the end of it - the Burp icon shows on the task bar, but its window won't open. If I left-click on the icon on the task bar, or right-click and select "All Windows", a small gray preview window opens but that's all. I have reinstalled Burp a few times now, trying the latest version 2020.2.1 as well as older versions just to see if they might work. But nothing does. When I install Burp, I get an error message saying: Gtk-Message: 20:49:29.072: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" If I try to run Burp from the command line, this is the output: t0p@pluto:~/BurpSuiteCommunity$ java -jar burpsuite_community.jar WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred WARNING: Illegal reflective access by burp.ffs (file:/home/t0p/BurpSuiteCommunity/burpsuite_community.jar) to field javax.swing.JTree.expandedState WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of burp.ffs WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release My operating system is Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, my computer is Lenovo G505, with AMD® A6-5200 apu

Razored | Last updated: Apr 17, 2020 08:24PM UTC

Ok I got it working now. After posting this, the site showed me some similar posts, and in one it was suggested to add "usedefaults" to the command line to get rid of problematic temporary files. So I tried that and it worked. Burp seems to be working fine now. Sorry I didn't see this before I posted - I came to this site originally hoping to find similar posts that might offer a solution, but I didn't come across any obvious way to search posts before making one. Hopefully someone with the same problem will see this. And hopefully Burp continues to work for me! I'll be back if it stops again!!! Cheers!

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