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@mluque Yes, it seems that Microsoft is doing the wrong thing and has deleted the packages from the repository. There are several open threads on this topic.

The truth is that since the announcement that Microsoft was going to withdraw the Teams client, one does not know what is going to happen. I hope they restore the files, but in the meantime I have uploaded the binaries here (they are the Arch packages, I don't have the original .deb packages but if someone passes them to me I can include them).

Please, before flag as Out-of-date perform a double check in versions. Version 1.4.00.4855 is higher than 1.3.00.30857, 1.3.00.5153 or 1.3.00.958.

If you doubt, please remember the math classes and perform a count 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 958, 959, ..., 5152, 5153, 5154, ..., 30856, 30857, 30858, etc.

You can go to HERE, download DEB or RPM and compare versions

After the below mentioned package downgrades I wanted to test things after rebooting, but could not log in to Cinnamon (actually I could log in to XFCE). But I wanted to use Cinnamon, so I upgraded stuff again (can be done in console) (sudo pacman -Su), then I could log in to Cinnamon. Then I started whatever apps I wanted and downgraded the libs again (see below) to start Teams. Unless sg is not working I stay with the downgraded libs for the moment. Otherwise I will upgrade and downgrade as needed. I am OK with this as I reboot maybe per 1-2 weeks, and using just suspend when I am not working.

flatpak - will check if all else fails.

I feel flatpak is the best workaround here, it's running as good as this version imo. teams-nativefier doesn't work with the suggested useragent tweak either.

@gavinhungry thanks, but creating the hooks.json did not prevent the white box, it just prevented the error message about hooks.json in the startup log. I needed to downgrade those libs.

@baggar11, thank you very much, those downgrades fixed it for me :)

wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/g/glibc/glibc-2.33-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/g/gcc-libs/gcc-libs-11.1.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/b/binutils/binutils-2.36.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/g/gcc/gcc-11.1.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U glibc-2.33-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst gcc-libs-11.1.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst binutils-2.36.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst gcc-11.1.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

@Ravenman, thanks for the info, I did the manual downgrade before I could read your comment, but will save this in my notes.

Downgraded the following fixed the issue for me.

[2022-02-15T10:34:21-0800] [ALPM] downgraded glibc (2.35-2 -> 2.33-5)

[2022-02-15T10:38:02-0800] [ALPM] downgraded gcc-libs (11.2.0-3 -> 11.1.0-3)

[2022-02-15T10:38:03-0800] [ALPM] downgraded binutils (2.38-3 -> 2.36.1-3)

[2022-02-15T10:38:03-0800] [ALPM] downgraded gcc (11.2.0-3 -> 11.1.0-3)

I've only tested this on 1.4.00.7556-1, but you can work around the blank splash screen crash by creating the following file:

${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/Microsoft/Microsoft Teams/hooks.json

With the following content:

{ "enableProcessIntegrityLevel": false }

Also seeing the "white screen issue" after updating today. I removed .config/Microsoft and .config/Microsoft Teams - Preview, and started Teams again - this is the log file: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mephinet/46b9d8fcade7ada6c5d4581b3eb95b2d/raw/88350694e38c1399ca1ff4b94c5d8715f389a338/logs.txt

This is the output of today's paclog - so the issue must be caused by the update of one of these packages: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mephinet/46b9d8fcade7ada6c5d4581b3eb95b2d/raw/e4d0ef914d818a3c4e6a9e48071c341573114c89/paclog.txt

I feel the flatpak Teams being faster now xD Did you disable GPU hardware acceleration and turned off animations?

@ogghi you're not alone: i7 8th gen + 16GB of Ram and Teams flatpak is laggy on the other side: AUR teams is perfectly fine