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Zoom for Linux Fails to Open Meeting Link

ebsf
Listener

So, Zoom supposedly installed.

 

I click on the meeting link in an e-mail, Firefox opens and asks for an application to open the link.

 

Now, what?

 

I just installed Zoom, so why doesn't a file/link association exist?

 

I navigate to /opt/zoom and double-click on the zoom file, and nothing happens.

 

How does one join a Zoom meeting in Linux?

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ebsf
Listener

I just learned that, because Ubuntu 22.04 installs Firefox in a snap, Zoom can't function in that environment.

 

The devs better get working on that.

See here.

dooferlad
Listener

Even from the command line, it doesn't work - you can run

zoom "https://zoom.us/j/<id>?pwd=<password>"

 and this doesn't work. Zoom opens to the UI as if you hadn't specified the URL. Nothing interesting in the logs - it gets the correct command line, starts the zoom, process, spits out some complaints about PulseAudio not running (sound isn't an issue once joining the meeting though).

 

I am not missing any libraries

ldd /usr/bin/zoom
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc41986000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f4c57e4a000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f4c57800000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f4c57b19000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f4c57e2a000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f4c57400000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4c57e6b000)

 

The only bit of the logs that gave me pause was "Error: Send error, 22 Invalid argument", but that has been around for ages.

 

[CZPClientLogMgr::LogClientEnvironment] [MacAddr: <snip>][client: Linux][OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS x64][Hardware: CPU Core:8 Frenquency:0.4 G Memory size:31514MB CPU Brand:AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS with Radeon Graphics GPU Brand:][Req ID: ]
Linux Client Version is 5.11.1 (3595)
QSG_RENDER_LOOP is
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP = ubuntu:GNOME; GDMSESSION = ubuntu; XDG_SESSION_TYPE = x11
Graphics Card Info:: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne (rev c4)
Zoom package arch is 64bit, runing OS arch is x86_64
qt.scenegraph.general: threaded render loop
qt.scenegraph.general: Using sg animation driver
qt.scenegraph.general: Animation Driver: using vsync: 6.94 ms
AppIconMgr::systemDesktopName log Desktop Name: ubuntu
Error: Send error, 22 Invalid argument
Error: Send error, 22 Invalid argument
Error: Send error, 22 Invalid argument
qt.scenegraph.general: Using sg animation driver
qt.scenegraph.general: Animation Driver: using vsync: 6.94 ms
qt.scenegraph.general: texture atlas dimensions: 1024x512
qt.scenegraph.general: R/G/B/A Buffers: 8 8 8 8
qt.scenegraph.general: Depth Buffer: 24
qt.scenegraph.general: Stencil Buffer: 8
qt.scenegraph.general: Samples: -1
qt.scenegraph.general: GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
qt.scenegraph.general: GL_RENDERER: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
qt.scenegraph.general: GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.48.07

 

mxn
Listener

Same issue here, Ubuntu 20.10 with Flatpak Zoom (the only one which works for me) and Snap-free Firefox.
I usually copy the Meeting ID and the Password out of the URL to paste it in the Desktop app. Annoying, but works.