Gitkraken stuck at opening repo

Question

Every time I open gitkrarken it gets stuck at opening repo icon. I can\'t open/clone/init repo. I heard some others have the same problem but no one seems to know why this i

Answer 1

In our case there was a Latex document in the repository. Gitkraken could not open the repository.

Based on what @GeekyMonkey suggested, my student tried to start GitKraken after closing all files and shutting down his Tex editor.

It worked after that