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No Longer Able to Join Teams Meetings on Linux

Nicholas Scribner 26 Reputation points
2021-03-26T13:48:51.303+00:00

I am no longer able to join video meetings with Microsoft Teams for the Linux version of the application. My distro is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I first noticed I was unable to join meetings about two weeks ago -- possibly after an update to Microsoft Teams. I previously was able to join meetings. When I click the link to join a meeting, Microsoft Teams opens, but the video/meeting screen never loads; it just opens the application.

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  1. Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2021-03-29T01:30:51.913+00:00

    @NicholasScribner-0956,

    You need to adjust the last line in /usr/bin/teams

    Change:
    nohup "$TEAMS_PATH" --disable-namespace-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox "$@" > "$TEAMS_LOGS/teams-startup.log" 2>&1 &

    To:
    nohup "$TEAMS_PATH" "$@" --disable-namespace-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox > "$TEAMS_LOGS/teams-startup.log" 2>&1 &

    Now, we have confirmed that this is a bug on Teams for Linux 1.4.00.4855. Microsoft will fix it with next version.

    Thanks for your patience and understanding.

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  1. JLC 11 Reputation points
    2021-12-09T10:28:08.827+00:00

    Well, I answer myself. After discarding firewall issues, I finally installed PulseAudio and the problem was gone.
    At home I managed to avoid PulseAudio installation by calling Teams with "apulse" (the PulseAudio emulator for ALSA). At work I'll keep PulseAudio for now.

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  2. JLC 11 Reputation points
    2021-11-05T10:53:55.62+00:00

    I cannot join Teems meetings for Linux versions 1.4.00.13653 nor 1.4.00.26453. Version 1.4.00.7556 is fine.

    I thought it was because I had not yet migrated to Devuan 4.0 (kernel 5.10 LTS) from Devuan 3.1 (kernel 4.19 LTS), but after migrating the problem persists. At the very moment I'm joining a meeting, Teams crashes and reinitiates again and again...

    I use Window Maker 0.95.9. I've tried the following:
    i) running a composer (" $ compton -l -15 -t -15 -f -C -G -b"),
    ii) running "xfce4-session" inside Window Maker, and
    iii) disabling the forcing of title bars, resize bars, minimize and close button on Teams by Window Maker
    with no success.

    I know of someone that uses Devuan 4.0 with no problem (MATE instead of Window Maker). Any ideas? Thanks.

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