I have been using legacy version of Defold on Ubuntu 17.10 which works fine but version 1.2.141 crashes on opening any project.
I have tested opening locally created projects on Ubuntu 64-bit version.
Any links to solve this?
Here is the terminal output after crash.
@anon82505667 Can you try this? https://www.defold.com/faq/#_linux_issues
Weird thing…
When I tried the solution as stated on https://www.defold.com/faq/#_linux_issues it didn’t work so I asked on forum but now it seems to work. 
It still does not launch properly on double-clicking the Defold launcher.
I have to use
$ export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.1
$ ./Defold
every single time. I am not an expert in Linux. Is there a shortcut so that Defold launcher simply works, like it does in Windows?
Thanks
Solved the problem by adding
export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.1
in bash config file. Now it works fine. 
Thanks @Erik_Angelin
@britzl Though the bash config addition allowed me to launch Defold, the problem is not completely solved. Take a look at Crash while using run with debugger on Ubuntu
According to @Erik_Angelin “the MESA workaround didn’t actually work properly”
Furthermore I discovered that this workaround blocks the Android Studio Emulator from running correctly(another workaround to make emulator work again is needed)