[CentOS] Unable to run TeamViewer 13 under Centos 7 (amd64)

Manish Jain bourne.identity at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 20 01:17:14 UTC 2017


I have TV running now. I suppose there is something which does not get 
installed with minimal iso -> xfce, but gets pulled in with DVD iso -> kde.

Thanks all for the help provided.

Thanks & Regards,
Manish Jain


On 12/20/17 03:55, Manish Jain wrote:
> 
> On 12/20/17 03:32, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 12/19/2017 02:57 PM, Manish Jain wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/20/17 01:45, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>> Manish Jain wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/19/17 22:11, Manish Jain wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/19/17 22:07, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 02:54:36PM +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
>>>>>>>> I uninstalled the old TV, and installed the version you indicated, but
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> get nothing at all:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /home/bourne # teamviewer
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Init...
>>>>>>>> CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
>>>>>>>> Checking setup...
>>>>>>>> Launching TeamViewer ...
>>>>>>>> Launching TeamViewer GUI ...
>>>>>>>> /home/bourne #
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I deleted ~/.config/teamviewer* and ~/.local/share/teamviewer*, but
>>>>>>>> still no luck.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is it possible that this has something to do with Centos 7 running as
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> vm (under VirtualBox) in my box ? (But then, Manjaro vm works fine).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe you have a customized $PS1 (or other shell) but with a shell
>>>>>>> prompt that includes '#', it makes me wonder if you're running this as
>>>>>>> the logged-into-X user or as root?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for joining the thread.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am doing this as a normal user (bourne), logged in with xfce4.
>>>>>
>>>>> I recreated the vm - this time letting the TV rpm pull in all its deps.
>>>>> But the situation remains the same - No TV window from teamviewer.
>>>>>
>>>> Have you tried looking in either ~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Mark,
>>>
>>> Thanks for replying.
>>>
>>> There is no ~/.xsession-errors, and the only X log /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>> shows no errors whatever.
>>>
>>> I can - if it helps - post the output of 'strace teamviewer' - but it
>>> would be huge.
>>>
>>
>> Is there a reason why you picked a non standard graphical system for centos?
>>
>> since this seems to use qt5 .. I would try installing KDE (KDE is on my
>> laptop .. but I use gnome and was logged in via gnome when it worked).
>>
>> There is likely something that is part of GDM / Gnome / KDE that the
>> package needs which is not installed in xfce.  That would be my bet.
> 
> 
> That is my guess too as of now. I set up a minimal system because I like
> to build up my system using nuts-and-bolts.
> 
> Since that did not work well, I have flagged off the DVD download, and
> shall use KDE this time around. If K does not salvage the situation, I
> will post a new message to the forum.
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Manish Jain
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