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Visual Studio Code 1.51.1 not launching on Ubuntu 20.10 (ERROR: GLIBC_2.29' not found)

VSCODE VER: 1.51.1

This shows up with code --verbose:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gvfs/libgvfscommon.so: undefined symbol: g_task_set_name
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
(code:29555): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:20:59.732: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:1428:23: 'font-feature-settings' is not a valid property name
(code:29555): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:20:59.735: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:3316:25: 'font-feature-settings' is not a valid property name
(code:29555): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:20:59.736: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:3778:23: 'font-feature-settings' is not a valid property name
[29587:1127/102100.107310:ERROR:gl_implementation.cc(286)] Failed to load libGL.so.1: /snap/core/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1)
[29587:1127/102100.108370:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(152)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
[main 2020-11-27T13:21:00.129Z] Error: EEXIST: file already exists, mkdir
[main 2020-11-27T13:21:00.131Z] Lifecycle#kill()

As I ran ldd --version I found I'm running ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.32-0ubuntu3) 2.32.

Could this version mismatch be the problem? How can I downgrade GLIBC to 2.29 (or upgrade VSCode to use ver 2.32), and not break any other software?

Thanks!

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