Problems with teamviewer

barney · 2024-10-22 22:59:20

I have installed teamviewer from AUR. I am trying to start teamviewer from terminal but I get this messages:

Init...
CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Starting network process (no daemon)
Network process already started (or error)
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...

After that nothings happens. The top command does not show any teamviewer process present.
I have searched the internet and this forum, but all I can find is some old posts that does not help.
Maybe I am doing something wrong, I don't know.

WorMzy · 2024-10-22 23:13:17

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

Sidekick · 2024-10-22 23:22:33

Haven't used the AUR package for it as I just download the tar.gz from teamviewer directly, judging by the comments it seems like the AUR installs the teamviewerd as a daemon. Are you using systemd? If yes check systemctl status teamviewerd to see what is going on with it. Maybe you just need to enable and start it?

barney · 2024-10-23 00:39:23

Sidekick wrote:

Haven't used the AUR package for it as I just download the tar.gz from teamviewer directly, judging by the comments it seems like the AUR installs the teamviewerd as a daemon. Are you using systemd? If yes check systemctl status teamviewerd to see what is going on with it. Maybe you just need to enable and start it?

You are right. The AUR package is installing the teamviewer as daemon. I have started the service with 'sudo systemctl start teamviewerd' and after that I have started the teamviewer but the GUI is not starting, all I get is few messages on the terminal:

Init...
CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...

I will try downloading the teamviewer from their web site.

barney · 2024-10-23 01:15:52

I have downloaded the teamviewer from their site. The same thing is happening. Interesting the './tv-setup checklibs' gives:

    -=-   TeamViewer tar.xz check   -=-

  In order to use the tar.xz version of TeamViewer,
  you have to make sure that the necessary libraries are installed.

    Writing raw output to /home/barney/tmp/teamviewer/logfiles/DependencyCheck.log

 Analyzing dependencies ...

	All library dependencies (*.so) seem to be satisfied!

	QtQuickControls seems to be missing

The qt5-quickcontrols package is installed. I have installed qt5-quickcontrols2 package also, but the './tv-setup checklibs' is returning the same error.
I suppose that teamviewer is expecting the qtquickcontrols on a non-standard place. I don't know how to solve this problem.

V1del · 2024-10-23 01:29:49

Works fine here, what environment are you running and how are you starting it? iirc teamviewer had some issues when the session wasn't started via display manager (or rather afaik if XDG_SESSION_TYPE is tty and not x11/wayland)

Last edited by V1del (2024-10-23 16:10:46)

barney · 2024-10-23 02:41:33

V1del wrote:

Works fine here, what environment are you running and how are you starting it? iirc had some issues when the session wasn't started via display manager (or rather afaik if XDG_SESSION_TYPE is tty and not x11/wayland)

I don't have DM. The value of XDG_SESSION_TYPE is tty. Maybe that is the problem, but I don't know how to solve it. I have xinit.rc file, the window manager is OpenBox.

V1del · 2024-10-23 13:07:34

Make a habit of reading the pinned comments on AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/team … ent-868456

Alternatively since this would set it globally, just do an

export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11

in your .xinitrc and while we're here, make sure your .xinitrc is properly setup: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc

Last edited by V1del (2024-10-23 16:10:01)

cryptearth · 2024-10-23 14:07:11

Sidekick wrote:

I just download the tar.gz

nah buddy - you don't want to do that - you want your package manager keep track of software installed on your system
litter your system with extracted archives will bite you at some point

anyway - is there any reason for using teamviewer on linux anyway - or are you controlling a windows box? (in that case: why is the system you control a windows system?)

Sidekick · 2024-10-23 18:55:36

cryptearth wrote:

Sidekick wrote:
I just download the tar.gz
nah buddy - you don't want to do that - you want your package manager keep track of software installed on your system
litter your system with extracted archives will bite you at some point
anyway - is there any reason for using teamviewer on linux anyway - or are you controlling a windows box? (in that case: why is the system you control a windows system?)

That is certainly a viewpoint, though in this case I disagree and much rather have it in one folder in my /home folder. Regardless, kind of off-topic.

Last edited by Sidekick (2024-10-23 18:57:20)

barney · 2024-10-24 22:12:11

V1del wrote:

Make a habit of reading the pinned comments on AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/team … ent-868456
Alternatively since this would set it globally, just do an
export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
in your .xinitrc and while we're here, make sure your .xinitrc is properly setup: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc

I didn't read the pinned comment. The export of the XDG_SESSION_TYPE in xinit file didn't helped. Creating the drop-in file for getty service helped. Now teamviwer is working fine. Thanks.

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