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tenspd1370
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 Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 7:28 pm Post subject: zoom will only run under sudo |
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| Not sure why, but all of a sudden, zoom will only run as sudo, and when I try to launch from the CLI, I get no messages to tell me why zoom won't start from cli. Not sure what changed - this just started happening. What am I missing? |
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orionbelt
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| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:21 am Post subject: |
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During the last couple of weeks or so, i've also had the problem that zoom would not start (it would just hang in the command line). I am not sure our circumstances are the same, but i am posting the solution i found in case it helps.
I encounter the problem only when i run an X session as user1, then su - user2 and try to start zoom from user2 (other X programs work without a problem).
Upon checking ~user2/.zoom/logs/zoom_stdout_stderr.log, the problem was:
| Code: | | [27655:27678:1126/080932.709781:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix") |
Apparently the problem was caused by the environment variable DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS being undefined for user2. The solution for me was:
- Either use --whitelist-environment to pass user1's DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS to user2:
| Code: | user1% su - --whitelist-environment DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS user2
user2% zoom |
Or start zoom on user2 as: | Code: |
user1% su - user2
user2% DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='DDDD' zoom |
where DDDD is the output of printenv DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS on user1. |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 10:45 am Post subject: Re: zoom will only run under sudo |
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| tenspd1370 wrote: | | Not sure why, but all of a sudden, zoom will only run as sudo ... |
To be clear, do you mean "as root", rather than "if I use sudo to start a session with a non-root userid"?
zoom most certainly shouldn't need root access.
Also, re you using Wayland or X11 for your screen?
I'm assuming you're using net-im/zoom, not something you've downloaded from the internet.
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