Sounds like Julia 1.8.0 hangs on startup when LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set · Issue #46409 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub, which should be fixed by Consistently use `RUNPATH` in our libraries by staticfloat · Pull Request #46464 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub. Temporary workaround is to start Julia with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" julia