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Postman launches with a blank screen

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This is now the third or fourth time that this has happened in the last couple of weeks: When I launch Postman all I get is a blank screen:

Postman blank screen

The only way to get around this that I have found is to reboot my workstation, which is of course a PITA.

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, 7.20.0.

Any fixes, workarounds etc are welcomed.

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JL_SO Avatar asked Mar 11 '20 11:03

JL_SO


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6 Answers

I had same problem on my linux machine. Simply run the following on your terminal until they both tell you no more process to kill.

killall Postman
killall _Postman
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Emmanuel C. Paul Avatar answered Oct 27 '22 14:10

Emmanuel C. Paul


I started facing this issue on updating to version - v8.2.3,

Try below approach, which worked for me..

Step 1: Add windows environment variable: POSTMAN_DISABLE_GPU, with the value: true

Step 2: From the same blank screen open a New Postman Window (File -> New Postman Window)

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Suman Siddeshwara Avatar answered Oct 27 '22 14:10

Suman Siddeshwara


None of these worked for me, I had to go to "System Monitor" and kill a load of processes with names like "postman --no-sandbox", "postman --type=zygote".

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Bender Rodriguez Avatar answered Oct 27 '22 13:10

Bender Rodriguez


Expanding on the previous answer, I put a script together that performs the loop as many times as needed to get Postman working again:

#!/bin/bash

OUTPUT=$(killall Postman 2>&1)

while [ "$OUTPUT" != "Postman: no process found" ]; do
    OUTPUT=$(killall Postman 2>&1)
done

OUTPUT=$(killall _Postman 2>&1)

while [ "$OUTPUT" != "_Postman: no process found" ]; do
    OUTPUT=$(killall _Postman 2>&1)
done

Make sure you set the permission for the file correctly so you can execute it:

chmod 700 kill_all_postman_procs.sh

To run it:

./kill_all_postman_procs.sh or may you need to do sudo ./kill_all_postman_procs.sh

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Force Hero Avatar answered Oct 27 '22 15:10

Force Hero


It's all about GPU driver and setting, it may happen when you don't force disable that setting and running on dual monitor.

On windows 10, to disable it you can disable it from gpu control panel, POSTMAN_DISABLE_GPU, or try to run postman before plugging the 2nd monitor

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Alifa Al Farizi Avatar answered Oct 27 '22 13:10

Alifa Al Farizi


FOr all options listed above failed to work. My os is Ubuntu 18. The only solution was to install a version that worked. Before you install this version uninstall the currently installed afterwards install this snap version

snap install --channel=v7/stable postman

If you have this specific version installed. run the following

snap refresh --channel=v7/stable postman
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Andrew Mititi Avatar answered Oct 27 '22 14:10

Andrew Mititi