Working on Zoom port

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

Eric McCorkle (eric at metricspace.net) wrote:
> On 5/3/20 8:27 PM, Austin Shafer wrote:
> > Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net> writes:
> > 
> >> On 5/3/20 8:07 PM, Austin Shafer wrote:
> >>>> linux: pid 3906 (QDBusConnection): syscall inotify_init1 not implemented
> >>>> linux: pid 3906 (QDBusConnection): syscall inotify_init not implemented
> >>>> linux: pid 3919 (QDBusConnection): syscall inotify_init1 not implemented
> >>>> linux: pid 3919 (QDBusConnection): syscall inotify_init not implemented
> >>>> linux: pid 3906 (vcdn_thread): syscall inotify_init not implemented
> >>>
> >>> A while back I tried to map linux's inotify to kqueue in the linuxlator
> >>> to solve this problem for steam. It was not very successful. Although it
> >>> could handle monitoring single files, it could not do directories which
> >>> is how most people seem to use inotify. I wonder why zoom needs this?
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately I can't seem to find the patches. If I do I'll let
> >>> you know.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Those are syslog messages.  The corresponding application log messages
> >> look like it's trying to talk through a socket, probably to DBus
> > 
> > Either way, something is trying to use inotify which the linuxlator does not
> > support.
> > 
> 
> Guess I'm dead in the water, then.  Oh well, it was worth a shot.

Hi Eric,

inotify seems to be optional. I was able to join Zoom meeting from the
VirtualBox 12.0-RELEASE system. No camera, no audio though, only remote
video stream rendering. When I tried to move stuff to my laptop the app
started crashing. I think it's probably related to Xorg DRI/DRM because
Linux glxgears also segfaults on the laptop but works in the VirtualBox

Non-obvious stuff I had to do to unblock app start-up: start session
dbus daemon, I did it using dbus-monitor app:

nohup dbus-monitor &

I also used zoom.sh wrapper to start Zoom app. Had to modify it by
changing shell to /usr/local/bin/bash and removing core file Linux-isms.

Hope it unblocks your progress with the port.

-- 
gonzo