I think that adding two aliases broke my 1C test server's licensing. The server (8.3.5.1119 64-bit) is running on the same Ubuntu host as PostgreSQL clusters.
At first, after adding new aliases, it worked, but after ~30 minutes I couldn't open any configuration and was shown various cryptic messages about missing server license file, missing server license, no licenses available, etc.
I stopped the server, deleted everything from /home/usr1cv8, restarted the server, re-added all test databases.
Now everything works as expected.