Arduino IDE suddenly stopped working

Today I installed the arduino-ide_2.3.2_Linux_64bit which I downloaded from the official website as a zip file in my Fedora 40 notebook PC. I was using it perfectly to program my Adafruit Feather 32u4 Basic Proto and all of a sudden it was not able to program the board anymore, it just froze in "uploading". I restarted the Arduino IDE several times, unplugged and plugged the USB cable many times, went back to old codes that were working 5 minutes before, and nothing. So I decided to restart my PC. Now the Arduino IDE wont even open. There is no error message, not in the GUI nor in the terminal. If I run it in the terminal, this is what happens:

me@mypc:~/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.2_Linux_64bit$ ./arduino-ide 

me@mypc:~/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.2_Linux_64bit$

As you can see, it just prints an empty line and it exits.

What is happening? It worked fine for about 2 hours, and I was able to program my board about 10 times.

PS: The arduino-ide_2.3.2_Linux_64bit.AppImage does the same.

I can't help you directly; similar issues have been reported not too long ago.

https://forum.arduino.cc/search?q=fedora%20%23software%3Aide-2-x

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Dear @sterretje , thank you for pointing me to those issues. Actually, now after having rebooted the PC a couple more times (not due to the Arduino IDE), now it opens just fine. I don't have the µcontroller here with me to try to program it.

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