{"id":7711,"date":"2024-02-06T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=7711"},"modified":"2024-02-07T17:08:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:08:24","slug":"zoom-5-17-5-crash-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=7711","title":{"rendered":"Zoom 5.17.5 Crash on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I had to update the <em>Zoom<\/em> client on Linux to 5.17.5 because someone had started a video call with a newer version than what I had. Usually this has caused only irritation, but this time the program just kept freezing, eating memory and finally crashing with a segfault in <em>libQt5Core<\/em>. I had just updated to newer Nvidia drivers too, but reverting to the old version didn&#8217;t help. On another machine with an integrated Intel GPU there were no issues, which pointed the finger at Nvidia as well. Things started looking gloomy, as reinstalling <em>Zoom<\/em> was of no use and reverting to an older version would not let me join most calls. There is the Web version, sure, but no thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial googling around turned up only old problems with useless solutions, but after finding <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/flathub\/us.zoom.Zoom\/issues\/444\">this<\/a> things took an upward turn. Apparently the crash has to do with downloaded emojis (that haven&#8217;t worked anyway), because <em>Zoom<\/em> tries to load them over and over, leading to a massive memory leak and then segfault. Luckily the temporary solution is easy \u2013 delete the .zoom directory in your home directory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>rm -r ~\/.zoom<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Och samma p\u00e5 finska. Tuorein <em>Zoom<\/em> (5.17.5) j\u00e4i ensin jumiin, s\u00f6i muistin loppuun ja sitten kaatui. Olin juuri p\u00e4ivitt\u00e4nyt tuoreempiin Nvidian ajureihin, jotka vaikuttivat ensin syyp\u00e4\u00e4lt\u00e4, mutta vanhojen palautus ei auttanut eik\u00e4 my\u00f6sk\u00e4\u00e4n <em>Zoomin<\/em> uudelleenasennus tyhj\u00e4st\u00e4. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/flathub\/us.zoom.Zoom\/issues\/444\">T\u00e4\u00e4lt\u00e4<\/a> l\u00f6ytyi onneksi lopulta vinkki ja jonkinlainen selitys ongelmaan: jostain syyst\u00e4 asiakas j\u00e4\u00e4 lataamaan loputtomasti ylim\u00e4\u00e4r\u00e4isi\u00e4 emojeja, jos sellaisia koneelle on asentanut. V\u00e4liaikaisratkaisuna voi poistaa kotihakemistosta hakemiston .zoom ja johan soi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>rm -r ~\/.zoom<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had to update the Zoom client on Linux to 5.17.5 because someone had started a video call with a newer version than what I had. Usually this has caused only irritation, but this time the program just kept freezing, eating memory and finally crashing with a segfault in libQt5Core. I had just updated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-softat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}