RStudio cannot start or crashes immediately on Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)

I had been working very well with RStudio Desktop 0.98 on my Ubuntu 18.04, until I updated to RStudio Desktop 1.2.5.033-amd64 (via gdebi). Now it cannot even start properly, or crashes after ~5 min.

I reinstalled version 0.98 but now it crashes as well.
I've also reinstalled my r-base as well, without any success.

Below is the stdoutput I get when running rstudio from command line:

nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: No such file or directory
nouveau: ch17: krec 0 pushes 2 bufs 11 relocs 0
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000000 00000002 00000004 00000004 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000001 00000006 00000004 00000000 00000004
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000002 00000033 00000002 00000000 00000002
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000003 00000079 00000004 00000004 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000004 00000016 00000002 00000002 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000005 0000000e 00000002 00000002 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000006 0000000a 00000002 00000002 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000007 00000012 00000002 00000000 00000002
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000008 00000002 00000004 00000004 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000009 00000007 00000002 00000002 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 0000000a 00000015 00000002 00000002 00000000
nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: No such file or directory
nouveau: ch17: krec 0 pushes 0 bufs 2 relocs 0
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000000 00000003 00000004 00000004 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000001 00000006 00000004 00000000 00000004
nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: No such file or directory
nouveau: ch17: krec 0 pushes 0 bufs 2 relocs 0
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000000 00000002 00000004 00000004 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000001 00000006 00000004 00000000 00000004
Gtk-Message: 15:57:42.116: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: No such file or directory
nouveau: ch17: krec 0 pushes 0 bufs 1 relocs 0
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000000 00000002 00000004 00000004 00000000
nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: No such file or directory
nouveau: ch17: krec 0 pushes 1 bufs 4 relocs 0
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000000 00000002 00000004 00000004 00000000
nouveau: ch17: buf 00000001 00000006 00000004 00000000 00000004
Received signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR 000000000008
#0 0x7f8468f4fa4f
#1 0x7f8468f4fe4b
#2 0x7f8468f504ce
#3 0x7f84641b8890
#4 0x7f84453ba9bf
#5 0x7f84453baabe
#6 0x7f84453bb8f2
#7 0x7f844574e820
#8 0x7f844565b9fa
#9 0x7f84697f4bbb
#10 0x7f8469c88b30
#11 0x7f8469c88e70
#12 0x7f846bafb328
#13 0x7f846ba86c8a
#14 0x7f846bb019b3
#15 0x7f846bb01a57
#16 0x7f846baf49b6
#17 0x7f8468eb23d7
#18 0x7f8468ed8cf7
#19 0x7f8468ed935d
#20 0x7f8468ed962a
#21 0x7f8468ed2c92
#22 0x7f8468ef302f
#23 0x7f8468f29684
#24 0x7f8468f5ca10
#25 0x7f84641ad6db start_thread
#26 0x7f846261088f clone
r8: 0000000000000000 r9: 0000000000000000 r10: 00007f83ec0008d0 r11: 00007f83ec02a200
r12: 00007f83ec081420 r13: 00007f83ec043000 r14: 00007f84027fb470 r15: 0000000000000000
di: 00007f83ec081400 si: 00007f84027fb470 bp: 00007f83ec13ce30 bx: 0000000000000000
dx: 0000000000000000 ax: 00007f83ec081420 cx: 0000000000000000 sp: 00007f84027fb420
ip: 00007f84453ba9bf efl: 0000000000010202 cgf: 002b000000000033 erf: 0000000000000004
trp: 000000000000000e msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000008
[end of stack trace]
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.

any ideas?

Hi, welcome!

This seems like an issue with your video driver, try changing to software rendering, you can change it by holding the Ctrl key while opening RStudio, then you should see this menu and change the "Rendering Engine" to "Software".

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