Zoom does not start

Manjaro 21.0/KDE plasma 5.21.3/Kernel 5.10.2.-1

Hello
i installed zoom around a month ago from Flatpak and it worked well.
i thought I’d check today since i will need it in two days,but it doesn’t open;
it tries, but crushes.
the only changes i recall making is removing TLP and disabling Bluetooth from the system and running “sudo pacman -Sc”
i can try and reinstall it,but i prefer to fix it if possible.

i got these in journalctl -p 3 -xb :

Summary
systemd-coredump[16469]: Process 16426 (zoom) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                              
                                              Stack trace of thread 4:
                                              #0  0x00007f68fbaea7f5 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
Subject: Process 16426 (zoom) dumped core
Defined-By: systemd
Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
Documentation: man:core(5)

Process 16426 (zoom) crashed and dumped core.

This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
systemd-coredump[16566]: Process 16527 (zoom) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                              
                                              Stack trace of thread 4:
                                              #0  0x00007fa013d7e7f5 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
Subject: Process 16527 (zoom) dumped core
Defined-By: systemd
Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
Documentation: man:core(5)

Process 16527 (zoom) crashed and dumped core.

This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
systemd-coredump[16690]: Process 16651 (zoom) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                              
                                              Stack trace of thread 4:
                                              #0  0x00007f65c15ba7f5 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
Subject: Process 16651 (zoom) dumped core
Defined-By: systemd
Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
Documentation: man:core(5)

 Process 16651 (zoom) crashed and dumped core.

This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
should be reported to its vendor as a bug.

i tried launching it from the terminal to see if i get any errors,but it doesn’t output any.
not sure how to get those.(with verbose or the sorts)

Hi @linub,
I do know anything about installing flatpaks but you have another solutions.

The zoom package is in the AUR repository and you can also add it as a browser add-on on your browser.

You can also download the package from the zoom download webpage and run the following command with pacman, which I found in the man pages.

pacman -U /home/user/zoom_x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Install zoom package from a local file.

Otherwise, you can read the following post in order to install tha package from AUR.

Arch User Repository - Manjaro
HowTo: Install git Packages Specifically From AUR on Manjaro

Hope this help, regards.

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thank you
if i don’t get any assistance,I’ll try to reinstall it from flatpak and then from the AUR.

I am using Zoom several times a week - and have no issues - I don’t the flatpak version so I cannot comment on that. My installation is done using terminal

pamac build zoom

I have no experience with KDE but as KDE is built around Qt you may need to build the package containing Qt libraries for Zoom - I suggest you check without this build first and only use as a second option

pamac build zoom-system-qt
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i removed it from pamac and reinstalled it and it works now.
it also remembered my settings.

i wonder why removing it only removed 140 kB,but reinstalling it required a lot of MB.
also after removing it i ran “flatpak uninstall --unused” but there was nothing to remove.
i don’t want to accumulate junk on my hard drive.

also maybe i should have tried “flatpak repair” before doing what i did,but i only saw this command later.