# "Press Enter to start a new session. - Julia has exited." error

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/press-enter-to-start-a-new-session-julia-has-exited-error/32107>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/press-enter-to-start-a-new-session-julia-has-exited-error/32107 "2019-12-10T17:02:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![lko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6de8d8/32.png) [@lko](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lko)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/press-enter-to-start-a-new-session-julia-has-exited-error/32107/1 "2019-12-10T17:02:19Z")

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I’m a new user, trying to set up Julia/Juno under Ubuntu 18.04 derivative.

Julia runs fine when started in a terminal, by when I start up atom, I just get  
"Press Enter to start a new session.

Julia has exited".

I’ve seen some other threads about this, but they don’t seem to help/apply to me (e.g. no powershell option in the julia package settings).

ctrl-shift-I gives this error message:

```julia
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'SOCKET' of undefined
    at new PipeSocket (/home/local/kohlluka/.atom/packages/julia-client/node_modules/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch/lib/unixTerminal.js:270:41)
    at new UnixTerminal (/home/local/kohlluka/.atom/packages/julia-client/node_modules/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch/lib/unixTerminal.js:95:25)
    at Object.spawn (/home/local/kohlluka/.atom/packages/julia-client/node_modules/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch/lib/index.js:28:12)
    at /home/local/kohlluka/.atom/packages/julia-client/lib/connection/process/basic.js:58:24
    at <anonymous>

```

```julia
# Atom:
Version: 1.36.1
Dev Mode: false
Official Release: true
{
  "http_parser": "2.7.0",
  "node": "8.9.3",
  "v8": "6.1.534.41",
  "uv": "1.15.0",
  "zlib": "1.2.11",
  "ares": "1.10.1-DEV",
  "modules": "57",
  "nghttp2": "1.25.0",
  "openssl": "1.0.2n",
  "electron": "2.0.18",
  "chrome": "61.0.3163.100"
}
# julia-client:
Version: 0.11.3
Config:
{
  "uiOptions": {
    "enableMenu": true,
    "enableToolBar": true
  },
  "firstBoot": false
}

# ink:
Version: 0.11.7
Config:
undefined

# uber-juno:
Version: 0.3.0
Config:
{
  "disable": true
}

# language-julia:
Version: 0.19.2
Config:
undefined

# language-weave:not installed

# indent-detective:
Version: 0.4.0
Config:
undefined

# latex-completions:
Version: 0.3.6
Config:
undefined

Could not connect to Julia.

```

thanks for any help or directions.!

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**Author:** ![aaowens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aaowens/32/12101_2.png) [@aaowens](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aaowens)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/press-enter-to-start-a-new-session-julia-has-exited-error/32107/2 "2019-12-10T17:07:19Z")

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The current version of Atom is 1.41.0, so you’re pretty outdated. Maybe upgrading to the current version will help?

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**Author:** ![lko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6de8d8/32.png) [@lko](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lko)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/press-enter-to-start-a-new-session-julia-has-exited-error/32107/3 "2019-12-10T18:14:48Z")

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thanks, that solved the problem!