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Please, don't ask for add lsb-release as dependency. In Arch Linux this package is not needed to run Slack Desktop.

And before asking for any other dependency as make or patch or whatever, please read the wiki.

Hello,

I started getting an error about "appTeams" on open as of last week. I tried removing and reinstalling, didn't work without patch, tried copying patch (but the patch in the repo had git history which when removed failed shasum test), then tried removing the patch from the makepkg and reinstalling.

I'm still getting the error on open, preventing use of app.

A javascript error occured in the main process

Uncaught exception: TypeError: cannot read property 'appTeams' of undefined at validateTeamsState (/usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar/dist-main.bundle.js:2:1930329) at reduce (/usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar/dist/main.bundle.js:2-1930925"...

and onwards. Full pic of error message here - can't copy it from this weird electron window (https://imgur.com/a/tRDWcxV)

Is anyone else encounterign this error on the "appTeams" property preventing use of the applications?

@valentjedi It works fine, thx :)

@brsvh I had the same thing. Upon looking at logs it seems that slack assumes lsb-release installed and doesn't handle its absense. Installing lsb-release fixed the issue for me.

It seems to depend on wget as well. I had a segmentation fault (so far not sure why), but this is what I've got:

Cannot upload crash dump: cannot exec /usr/bin/wget

Unexpected crash report id length
Failed to get crash dump id.
Report Id: 
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  slack

After I installed and run it, I get some electron and node error, then the slack will freeze and don't have GUI window too.

Initializing local storage instance at path: /home/brs/.config/Slack/local-settings.json
Failed to get path for key, this may be expected: /home/brs/.config/autostart
(node:244863) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
(electron) 'BrowserWindow.getDevToolsExtensions' is deprecated and will be removed. Please use 'session.getAllExtensions' instead.

Installed, and working fine, but the icon in my task switcher is the generic one. Perhaps someone knows how to fix this (I'm using LXQT, and, concomitantly, lxqt-app-switcher)?

@maverick1: Please read the pinned comment, especially the Prerequisites part of the linked wiki page.

I got an error while installing it from yay

==> Starting package()...
/home/maverick/.cache/yay/slack-desktop/PKGBUILD: line 24: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
error making: %!s(func() string=0x55b9433c2880)

Without a notification daemon running, Slack will freeze when trying to send a notification.

This issue shows up in other Electron apps too https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/14006.

To fix this install and launch dunst (or any other notification daemon).

Same for me - it hangs all the time, becoming non-interactive, if i wait for couple minutes - it works, but after a while - same problem. What interesting is that the same happens with mailspring app. Probably connected to electron or other library which is used in both apps.