Thanks, Michael. It is now trying to open the GUI.
But I am getting the following error. I am running two parallel instances of sumo.
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
qsumo: ../../src/xcb_io.c:165: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] *** Process received signal ***
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] Signal: Aborted (6)
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] Signal code: (-6)
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] [ 0] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x12980)[0x7fd12c732980]
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] [ 1] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0xc7)[0x7fd12c36de87]
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] [ 2] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x141)[0x7fd12c36f7f1]
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] [ 3] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x303fa)[0x7fd12c35f3fa]
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] [ 4] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x30472)[0x7fd12c35f472]
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] [ 5] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(+0x3da9c)[0x7fd128462a9c]
[DAUBQSUMO002:17633] [ 6] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x28b)[0x7fd12846393b]