On some machines, updating from Zoom v5.17.1 to v5.17.5 causes a memory leak which after some time (when your memory is full) freezes up your computer.
Source:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/zoom-linux-5-17-5-won%27t-start-4175733126/
The solution is to remove zoom files in the user's $HOME catalog from an older installation and start fresh. Idea: Maybe there should be a zoom-cleanup script that removes old settings in user's home folder embedded in this package, since this issue with old configuration files may reappear in later updates.
killall zoom 2>/dev/null
rm -rf $HOME/.zoom/ $HOME/.cache/
rm -f $HOME/.config/zoom*
You can then start a Zoom meeting without crashing the computer.
function zoom () { xdg-open "zoommtg://zoom.us/join?confno=$1"; }
or sandboxed:
function zoom () { firejail zoom --url="zoommtg://zoom.us/join?action=join&confno=$1"; }
and then use the function to start a meeting id:
zoom 123456789
To make it handier you can add the shell function above to your $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.zshrc
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arash-m commented on 2024-09-15 15:56 (UTC)
Tested 6.2.0-1. Sharing works for me, but it still crashes after stopping. The workaround for me is still downgrading pipewire and libpipewire to 1.0.7 before meetings.
a172 commented on 2022-06-13 14:25 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-13 14:25 (UTC) by a172)
@edh - That's not the answer I was hoping for (I was really hoping we could get it to launch without xwayland), but at least I know I'm not missing something.
Some
~/.config/zoomus.confupdates:qt5-webengineinstalled, and theebeddedBrowserForSSOLoginline doesn't exist in my configzoomus.conf. SSO login works just fine (issues with Firefox containers aside).pipewire-pulse.system.audio.typedefaulted toalsafor me (or I changed it without realizing it). I probably could have installedpipewire-alsaand fixed my issues, but I setsystem.autio.type=pulse(a lucky guess) and this worked. This should work for anyone using straight PulseAudio as well.If anyone finds documentation on
~/.config/zoomus.conf, please let us know.edh commented on 2016-08-26 11:03 (UTC) (edited on 2017-03-09 10:48 (UTC) by edh)