Zoom

[Tom H]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:37 PM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 30.03.2020, 22:10 +0200 schrieb Tom H:
>>
>> By the way, I've just installed the zoom-client snap (on 20.04) and
>> this is what I get when I start it:
>>
>> zoom-client_zoom-client.desktop: cannot perform operation:
>> mount --rbind /root /tmp/snap.rootfs_NdC795//root: Permission denied
>>
>> "/root"? I had masked the snapd units and unmasked, enabled, and
>> started snapd.service, so maybe I didn't have something active before
>> launching it and there was some freakout.
>>
> yeah, this is definitely weird. testing the snap on 16.04, 18.04 and
> 20.04 (in freshly booted live VMs) is part of my typical QA cycle of
> the snap before i release it to stable.
>
> i just tried it again on 20.04 and it works just fine there ... though
> your message looks rather like your snapd install is really messed up
> a bit ... have you used other snaps on this system before ? do "snap
> list" and "snap version" work ?

Thanks. I'd run "systemctl start spand.service" before launching Zoom.

I set up an Ubuntu container and saw that every snap service was
enabled by default, so I enabled and started them all. Zoom didn't
launch. But this time there was an apparmor denial as well as the
weird bind-mount.

I rebooted with the same result when launching Zoom.

I looked at zoom's snapcraft.io page to check whether I should've used
"--classic" at install-time; and I found out that I had to run

sudo snap connect zoom-client:audio-record
sudo snap connect zoom-client:camera
sudo snap connect zoom-client:hardware-observe
sudo snap connect zoom-client:network-manager
sudo snap connect zoom-client:process-control
sudo snap connect zoom-client:system-observe

It's now working.

Thanks for the snap (I've been using Zoom via my browser but I prefer
having it shunted off into an app) and thanks the help!

Isn't there a way to display a message after running "snap install
<snap>" if further commands are necessary? All three BSD port systems
display post-install messages (for example, to remind a user to set up
log rotation).

For the record:

$ snap version
snap    2.44.1
snapd   2.44.1
series  16
ubuntu  20.04
kernel  5.6.0-1th

$ snap list
Name         Version          Rev   Tracking       Publisher   Notes
core         16-2.44.1        8935  latest/stable  canonical✓  core
core18       20200311         1705  latest/stable  canonical✓  base
skype        8.58.0.93        118   latest/stable  skype✓      classic
zoom-client  3.5.374815.0324  41    latest/stable  ogra        -

$