KiCad 6 using PCB Editor crashes KiCad

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I am running KiCad 6.02 on Ubuntu 22.04. The schematic editor works fine - and I have a design I wish to progress to the PCB Layout phase of the design, but every attempt results in KiCad crashing.
If I try to run the PCB Editor as “standalone”, then it asks if I want to use the default settings, and then crashes.
I am finding this very frustrating, as I have used KiCad over many years, and this is the first time I have had such a problem, and I cannot find anything online that guides me to a solution!
Any help would be most appreciated.
Please let me know if there is information I can provide to help establish the issue!
Many thanks,

Below is the information about the system (thank you hermit for your help!):-

Application: KiCad

Version: 6.0.2+dfsg-1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.14

Platform: Linux 5.19.0-38-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, gnome-flashback-metacity, x11

Build Info:
Date: Feb 12 2022 09:36:02
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.74.0
OCC: 7.5.1
Curl: 7.81.0
ngspice: 36
Compiler: GCC 11.2.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

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Thank you for your positive attitude towards making Kicad a better project! I’ve upgraded you to ‘basic user’ in case you need to upload something.

One thing you could do is go to the help > about? menu and chose the copy to clipboard of your system information and edit your opening post with that information.

Thanks and welcome.

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Just an aside here, 6.0.2 is very old and this issue is potentially addressed already by 6.0.11 or 7.0.2

These are available using the instructions at Install on Ubuntu | KiCad EDA

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Even Ubuntu 23.04 seems to offer the ancient and buggy 6.0.2 by default

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It’s to do with how these distro releases work. They take the app version at what was current at the time of the freeze, or more likely what the builders last successfully compiled. Then there’s the wx version requirement. So the PPA is needed.

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Many thanks for the help - sadly, when I followed the instructions to upgrade, I get an error -

debconf: DbDriver “config”: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
Setting up libssl3:amd64 (3.0.2-0ubuntu1.9) …
debconf: DbDriver “config”: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another p
rocess: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing package libssl3:amd64 (–configure):
installed libssl3:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned er
ror exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
libssl3:amd64

I have tried the usual ways of solving this type of error, and researching online, but cannot progress beyond getting the same error.
Any help would be most appreciated!

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This seems to be a system problem, there is another process running that’s using the file. This suggestion may be relevant:

You could try the simple step of restarting the system first before you try the solution detailed on that page.

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Thank you very much indeed for your help - I have not encountered using fuser to establish the lock - but that did work.
I have now managed to install Kicad 7.0, and can confirm that the PCB Editor has loaded without crashing.
My sincere thanks to everyone that helped!

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