[MCL-17227] Linux Debian launcher fails to start

After downloading from https://launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.deb

And starting for the first time i am getting failures related to `launcher_settings.json`

[Error: 2021-03-09 02:50:11.127623420: SettingsManager.cpp(106)] : Deserializing: * Line 1, Column 1
  Syntax error: value, object or array expected.[Error: 2021-03-09 02:50:11.127640452: SettingsManager.cpp(106)] : Deserializing: Expected object
[Error: 2021-03-09 02:50:11.127654358: SettingsManager.cpp(111)] Failed parsing main configuration file: .../.minecraft/launcher_settings.json

I can't not seem to get passed this error and the minecraft-launcher process hangs and i hvae to -9 kill since their is no gui launcher to close out.

launcher_log.txtfull log file