[SOLVED] Zoom on LiveSlak - Library issues

Petri Kaukasoina · 03-06-2024, 07:35 AM

I meant why you think the libraries are not available. If you think ldd shows that, it doesn't.

This is what I get here:

Code:

$ ldd /opt/zoom/zoom | grep found
        libcef.so => not found
        libffmpeg.so => not found
$

But zoom works here.

I have a full install, qt5 included, and that's why the list doesn't show the qt5 libraries as 'not found':

Code:

$ ldd /opt/zoom/zoom | grep libQt5
        libQt5QuickWidgets.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5QuickWidgets.so.5 (0x00007f330ba49000)
        libQt5Quick.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Quick.so.5 (0x00007f330b400000)
        libQt5Svg.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Svg.so.5 (0x00007f330b9ef000)
        libQt5Widgets.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Widgets.so.5 (0x00007f330ac00000)
        libQt5X11Extras.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5X11Extras.so.5 (0x00007f330b9e8000)
        libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f330a400000)
        libQt5Qml.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Qml.so.5 (0x00007f3309e00000)
        libQt5Network.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Network.so.5 (0x00007f3309c64000)
        libQt5DBus.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5DBus.so.5 (0x00007f330b957000)
        libQt5Xml.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Xml.so.5 (0x00007f330b3ba000)
        libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007f3309600000)
        libQt5QmlModels.so.5 => /usr/lib64/libQt5QmlModels.so.5 (0x00007f3309578000)

If I look at /proc/$PID/map_files for the first /opt/zoom/zoom process that ZoomLauncher starts, I can see that even though ldd found the stock qt5 libs, zoom does not use them. Zoom uses its own libQt5* libraries (and libffmpeg.so, libcef.so) under /opt/zoom. Even though ldd does not show them.

Could there be some other reason why your zoom does not work, other that a library problem? Usually programs give an error message if they can't find a needed library.

Do you have a ~/.zoom directory in your home directory? For some reason I have both ~/.zoom/logs/zoom_stdout_stderr.log and ~/.zoom/.zoom/logs/zoom_stdout_stderr.log. Maybe there is something relevant?

business_kid · 03-06-2024, 10:29 AM

Well I tried to get a squashfs together

Code:

# mksquashfs /opt/zoom  /root/0070-zoom-5.17.10 -no-strip

which looked fine. But when I unsquashed it, I had a directory ~/squashfs-root/ with the zoom files and the /opt/zoom/ was not there.

So I went to try an AppImage (not having seen your post) and the usb drive went out to lunch on that job. So I tried e2fsck, and it went out to lunch recovering the journal.

I think I'll make myself a new liveslak. There's a bit of mileage on that one. I have wine, multilib, and numerous updates on that, and it's 18 months old. That will give me an opportunity to load a bigger iso, and generally freshen things up.
So I'll mark this solved, because there's a result and if I'm going to wipe the usb, there's not much point in people wasting mental energy on it.

Windu · 03-06-2024, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Well I tried to get a squashfs together

Code:

# mksquashfs /opt/zoom  /root/0070-zoom-5.17.10 -no-strip

which looked fine. But when I unsquashed it, I had a directory ~/squashfs-root/ with the zoom files and the /opt/zoom/ was not there.

You need to check the documentation on how to use the squashfstools.
Use "mksquashfs -no-strip" and "unsquashfs -dest".

business_kid · 03-06-2024, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Windu

You need to check the documentation on how to use the squashfstools.
Use "mksquashfs -no-strip" and "unsquashfs -dest".

Yes, the unsquashfs puts the default directory there. I got that far.
In other news, I've given up on the usb key. New usb disk on the way, which slows things somewhat.

USUARIONUEVO · 03-06-2024, 05:29 PM

I hate persistence ...when fully , then , win a corrupt system.

Better and safe way is learn to make squashfs files to add in addons folder.

business_kid · 03-08-2024, 02:44 PM

I never met a usb key so teetotally blown as my liveslak usb. Badblocks could find no errors, which is not good for badblocks. dd went out to lunch trying to zero it. Mount, e2fsck all froze trying to work on it. gdisk would read the partition table, but when I deleted the partitions, and pressed 'w', that was gone also. None of these programs were capable of being killed, but I ran them in an agetty console and could kill the bash login shell. With gdisk trying to write, I tried pulling the usb out of it's socket, but lsblk still saw it as present and the usb port went out to lunch! dmesg & lsblk still saw it. Sorry, I digress.

I burned a new live usb with the Slackware-live-lean-current.iso and zoom worked, so that's that. There's just one massive problem: That iso runs kde

! For me, that's a significant problem. So unless there's some hack I can pull, I'll burn one on the xfce iso tomorrow

business_kid · 03-09-2024, 02:09 PM

In the lean iso of slackware (see last post) I first tried removing the 2 plasma sxz files from the system, as it also has xfce. But what came up in X was very strange. A tiny console with no writing in it.

XFCE fails to find the libraries for zoom, any of them. I have zoom on my smartphone, So if the price of a working Zoom is having to use kde, I'm not prepared to pay that much. I got sick of fighting it, so I deleted /opt/zoom/.

That said, if anyone's listening, I'd welcome a bigger xfce iso. You can't get tiny usb drives any more, 8G is the absolute minimum, and 32G are as cheap.

I don't know why this happens, because I've had wine, multilib and a 32bit windows program on my xfce liveslak for years. Of course zoom is in a (low) class of it's own.

kgha · 03-09-2024, 03:20 PM

You could try the mate liveslak and see if you can tolerate it. Not too different from xfce.

business_kid · 03-10-2024, 05:43 AM

You know, I totally forgot the Mate & cinnamon spins.

I did try Cinnamon in RasPi OS and it was bearable. I did run mate, but it had tiny fonts & icons everywhere. That said, it was ok. I'm doing one reboot take on the lean iso and I've two Liveslak usb drives set up ATM.

kgha · 03-10-2024, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

...it had tiny fonts...

Easily fixed: System > Preferences > Look and Feel > Appearance > Fonts

business_kid · 03-10-2024, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kgha

Easily fixed: System > Preferences > Look and Feel > Appearance > Fonts

Yeah, I could find that, What I couldn't find was how to change the mouse pointer. It's a tiny black thing, and I gave that some time. The mouse setup has no pointer options.

I've been spoilt by this red highly visible mouse pointer on XFCE. I did prefer the cinnamon spin, and found it a little easier to find my way around. It also runs zoom. I'm fairly sure Mate does also. But I'm in no way decided yet.

Once I settle on a version, I'll have to invest time into adding software & library updates for something on wine. I also found out about my "USB-3.0" usb keys which are more like usb-1.0

. They are big and slow, but I have these neat small usb keys which are sold locally as pen drives(?). I'll get them instead.

kgha · 03-11-2024, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

What I couldn't find was how to change the mouse pointer.

System > Preferences > Look and Feel > Appearance > Theme > Customize > Pointer

But if cinnamon suits you, go ahead. WillySR does a great job maintaining both mate and cinnamon for slackware and keeping the DEs up to date.

business_kid · 03-11-2024, 05:29 AM

Thanks. That's a very obtuse place to hide mouse pointers. Why not do what everyone else does, and put mouse pointers under "mouse?" I'm trying to get into the mind that would conceive "System > Preferences > Look and Feel > Appearance > Theme > Customize > Pointer" as the obvious place for me to look. And after I do that, the only choice I have will probably be smaller ones. :-P

I fully updated Cinnamon last night - the long way. After wine & multilib, my library program installs about 2 Gig of compressed data, and a further 3.1 Gig (compressed) gets downloaded, extracted & stored. All slowly

.

I'm trying the mate live version on one of my slow usbs while I await delivery of a speedier item, and knowing my luck, I'd better back them both up! Thanks for the mate guidance. Of course writing a GUI lets you play God with preferences and decide what's good for other people, to a point.

business_kid · 03-11-2024, 12:19 PM

I built a 'slow boat' usb and it was painful. But it behaved better than the last one. e2fsck found disk faults, so I'll try it again. But I'll buy again anyhow. I was using the slow boats for loading isos, and they do that passably.

What attracts me to mate is the 4 VTs that XFCE has, whereas cinnamon & kde only seem to have the one. I can see what's on each VT and switch there. I got online this time. But I couldn't even log into LQ, and I should be able to do that by now!

hdparm -t reports 195MB/S for a normal usb key vs 101.5MB/S for the slow boat.

business_kid · 03-12-2024, 11:48 AM

/One day Later.

Running the Mate liveSlak on my faster usb. All is running well, except Zoom. I wanted Zoom to check sound & Video. But zoom can't go online, although everything else can. I'm writing this from the Live usb.

If I "join a meeting", I can put in the number, and it should progress to enter a password. But it goes out to lunch there, eventually coming back with "An unknown error occurred - 1342"

If I try to sign: I enter my email & password, and go to sign in. It duly reports "Timeout" in red.

I did reinstall the zoom tarball and sync the disks immediately afterwards, but no dice. I checked the network - it's fine. I'm using the same tarball on all my boxes, and they are fine. Even the Cinnamon live usb could keep Zoom happy. Hmmm... Cinnamon definitely BEHAVED better, but there's something delinquent about Mate.

EDIT: the 'join via web browser' option fails because zoomgov.com is unreachable on all 3 urls. Zoom has servers 8 Km (5 Miles) up the road here in City West. But I can't reach them.