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April 21, 2022
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Cannot start up on Linux

  • April 21, 2022
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Hi,

 

My Zoom client crashes constantly after updating to the newest version (zoom-5.10.3.2778). I am on Fedora Linux 35 and using the latest NVIDIA drivers. This crash happens on both Wayland and Xorg. Here is an excerpt of the end of the log:

qt.scenegraph.general: Animation Driver: using vsync: 16.95 ms QSGContext::initialize: depth buffer support missing, expect rendering errors qt.scenegraph.general: texture atlas dimensions: 1024x512 libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null) qt.scenegraph.general: Using sg animation driver qt.scenegraph.general: Animation Driver: using vsync: 16.95 ms QSGContext::initialize: depth buffer support missing, expect rendering errors qt.scenegraph.general: texture atlas dimensions: 512x512 [0421/112716.943201:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(414)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye. No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. zoom was exited due to a handled signal: 4 ZoomLauncher exit.

Any ideas on what to try? Zoom pops up with a "Send error report" and then that crashes about 1 second later.

    7 replies

    Newcomer
    April 22, 2022

    I'm having the same issue, however I have an AMD 6900 XT using the kernel drivers. 

    Newcomer
    April 24, 2022

    I am having the same problem with Ubuntu 22.04

    Newcomer
    April 24, 2022

    Any chance you have 2 video cards? 

    Newcomer
    April 24, 2022

    Hmm.  It is a laptop with an nVidia card, so it can do that or Intel.

    I tried downgrading to 5.9.6.2225, and now Zoom is working correctly.  I obviously don't want to stay at the older version, but I think this shows that there is an issue with the upgrade.

    It is possible that the issue is with the two card issue, but it is definite that the issue is a change in this upgrade, IMHO.

     

     

    Newcomer
    April 26, 2022

    The error seems to be between Electron and NVIDIA. I've successfully ran zoom by:

     

    $ zoom --disable-gpu-sandbox
    Newcomer
    May 10, 2022

    This also worked for me.  Much appreciated

    Newcomer
    April 28, 2022

    @Majal  Thanks a lot for this!  🤗  After the upgrade of Pop!_OS from 21.10 to 22.04, Zoom client 5.10.4.2845 stopped working (starting and just terminated immediately). With that flag, it runs ok.

    Newcomer
    June 9, 2022

    After a while I updated again to 5.10.7.3311, Ubuntu 22.04 and Nvidia 510 drivers and everything seems to work fine, except for the new whiteboard feature. Flag or no flag.
    Also Seems like Zoom do not monitor this thread, I haven't hear anything official from them about this issue. 

    Newcomer
    April 8, 2023

    Having same issue in Arch on laptop with dual GPU (Intel, nVidia but nVidia is active - in use). Using nVidia software 530.41.03-1 with xorg-server 21.1.8-1.

     

    Even

    zoom --disable-gpu-sandbox

    ...didn't help for newly installed Zoom to start it and still getting following error on laptop with dual GPU:

     

     

    Client: Breakpad is using Single Client Mode! client fd = -1 libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null) Linux Client Version is 5.14.2 (2046) QSG_RENDER_LOOP is XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP = KDE; GDMSESSION = ; XDG_SESSION_TYPE = x11 Graphics Card Info:: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] (rev a2) Zoom package arch is 64bit, runing OS arch is x86_64, snap package 0 AppIconMgr::systemDesktopName log Desktop Name: plasma zoom was exited due to a handled signal: 11 ZoomLauncher exit.

     

     

     

    About GPU's on problematic laptop with dual GPU:

     

     

    inxi -xxxzG Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:191b class-ID: 0300 Device-2: NVIDIA GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 530.41.03 arch: Maxwell pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-3,DP-4,DP-5 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13b0 class-ID: 0300 Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-8:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b52c class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 507x285mm (19.96x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.9") Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-1 model: Sharp 0x143b res: 1920x1080 dpi: 141 size: 346x194mm (13.62x7.64") diag: 397mm (15.6") modes: 3840x2160 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.41.03 renderer: Quadro M2000M/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes

     

     

     

    Applied SUID to chrome-sandbox:

     

     

    Checked: stat -c '%A %a %U %G %n' /opt/zoom/cef/chrome-sandbox -rwxr-xr-x 755 root root /opt/zoom/cef/chrome-sandbox Applied: sudo chmod 4755 /opt/zoom/cef/chrome-sandbox Checked again: stat -c '%A %a %U %G %n' /opt/zoom/cef/chrome-sandbox -rwsr-xr-x 4755 root root /opt/zoom/cef/chrome-sandbox Deleted zoom profile: rm -fr ~/.zoom Still error when launching Zoom Client: Breakpad is using Single Client Mode! client fd = -1 libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null) Linux Client Version is 5.14.2 (2046) QSG_RENDER_LOOP is XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP = KDE; GDMSESSION = ; XDG_SESSION_TYPE = x11 Graphics Card Info:: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] (rev a2) Zoom package arch is 64bit, runing OS arch is x86_64, snap package 0 AppIconMgr::systemDesktopName log Desktop Name: plasma zoom was exited due to a handled signal: 11 ZoomLauncher exit.

     

     

     

    In another desktop PC I succeeded to start Zoom 5.14.0 when applied SUID to /opt/zoom/cef/chrome-sandbox, this desktop PC has following GPU:

     

     

    inxi -xxxzG Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1912 class-ID: 0300 Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: intel dri: i965 gpu: i915 tty: 157x26 Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: HP E232 serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 dpi: 96 size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") diag: 584mm (23") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480

     

     

     

    Newcomer
    April 10, 2023

    The black screen or persistent freezing usually indicates that a needed video driver is missing. In this case we must enable proprietary video drivers to be downloaded through Ubuntu's updates, but that setting can only be enabled if we first boot successfully into the system, which safe graphics mode allows us to do

     

    Regards,

    Diana

    Newcomer
    April 15, 2023

    As mentioned, I'm using Arch Linux and nVidia software is installed. Also I mentioned, that Zoom won't start at all, currently v5.14.2. Actually we don't need any safe graphics mode as it is Linux and not MS Windows. Anyway - still currently Zoom won't start when nVidia GPU and its software is present. Error message and other details are already in my initial (previous) post. Interesting is, that flatpak version of same Zoom v5.14.2 is working on same laptop (without tweaking SUID permissions, etc). Here are installed packages via flatpak

     

     

    flatpak list Name Application ID Version Branch Installation Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 22.08.9 22.08 system Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 22.3.5 22.08 system Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 22.3.5 22.08-extra system nvidia-530-41-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-530-41-03 1.4 system Intel org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel 22.08 system openh264 org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 2.1.0 2.2.0 system Breeze GTK theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze 5.27.3 3.22 system Zoom us.zoom.Zoom 5.14.2.2046 stable system