Solved Zoom video doesn't work for the past few days in Chromium and Iridium

Sivan! · May 10, 2022

In Chromium 101 YouTube works fine, audio works without issues, but Zoom, for the past few days, does not display videos, though audio is fine. I installed Iriudium, zoom has the same issues. How would I troubleshoot this? I have freebsd 13.0 Release 11.0 with Kde plasma.

Thank you.

Geezer · May 11, 2022

I have only found zoom runs easily in firefox.

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

Geezer said:
I have only found zoom runs easily in firefox.

Thank you.

This is what happens:

cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
doas make install clean
....
===>  node-17.0.1_1 has known vulnerabilities:
node-17.0.1_1 is vulnerable:
  Node.js -- January 2022 Security Releases
  CVE: CVE-2022-21824
  CVE: CVE-2021-44533
  CVE: CVE-2021-44532
  CVE: CVE-2021-44531
  WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/972ba0e8-8b8a-11ec-b369-6c3be5272acd.html

1 problem(s) in 1 installed package(s) found.
=> Please update your ports tree and try again.
=> Note: Vulnerable ports are marked as such even if there is no update available.
=> If you wish to ignore this vulnerability rebuild with 'make DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes'
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[3]: stopped in /usr/ports/www/node
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/www/node
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/www/firefox
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/www/firefox

I also tried installing firefox as a package

doas pkg install firefox

The following 26 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be [COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)][B]REMOVED[/B][/COLOR]:
        chromium: 101.0.4951.41
        harfbuzz-icu: 4.2.1_1
        iridium-browser: 2022.04.100.0_3
        kde5: 5.24.4.22.04.0
        kdeedu: 22.04.0
        kdepim: 22.04.0
        kdepim-addons: 22.04.0_1
        kitinerary: 22.04.0_4
        marble: 22.04.0
        tex-dvipsk: 2021.1
        tex-formats: 20210325_1
        texlive-base: 20210325_3
        texlive-texmf: 20210325

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        firefox: 100.0_3,2

Installed packages to be [COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)][B]DOWNGRADED[/B][/COLOR]:
        boost-libs: 1.72.0_7 -> 1.72.0_6
        icu: 71.1,1 -> 70.1_1,1
        libical: 3.0.8_6 -> 3.0.8_5
        libphonenumber: 8.12.47 -> 8.12.44_1
        libqalculate: 4.1.1_1 -> 4.1.0_2
        protobuf: 3.20.1,1 -> 3.19.4,1
        qt5-core: 5.15.2p263_2 -> 5.15.2p263_1
        qt5-webkit: 5.212.0.a4_10 -> 5.212.0.a4_9
        samba412: 4.12.15_4 -> 4.12.15_3
        spidermonkey78: 78.15.0 -> 78.9.0_7

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
        freerdp-2.7.0 (needed shared library changed)
        mysql57-server-5.7.38 (needed shared library changed)

Number of packages to be removed: 13
Number of packages to be installed: 1
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 2
Number of packages to be downgraded: 10

The operation will free 3 GiB.

Geezer · May 11, 2022

Sivan! said:
Thank you.

This is what happens:

Yes. And so?

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

Geezer said:
Yes. And so?

I was worried about allowing firefox to remove 13 packages and downgrade 10 other, that these removed/downgraded packages may be dependencies in these exact versions for some other installed package or even for kde/plasma. Is it ok not to worry about downgrading and removing packages?

Thanks.

Geezer · May 11, 2022

Are you mixing ports and packages, or mixing from different repositories, latest and quarterly ... ?

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

I have not defined repositories, have not indicated preferences for any anywhere. But I have used commands variously:

portsnap fetch update
portmaster -a
pkg update
portupgrade

Thank you

Geezer · May 11, 2022

So then you are mixing ports and packages, and broadly getting into a mess.

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

Geezer said:
So then you are mixing ports and packages, and broadly getting into a mess.

How do I make amends ?

Thanks

Geezer · May 11, 2022

R

Sivan! said:
How do I make amends ?

Thanks

Read and digest:

Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries

docs.freebsd.org

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

Geezer said:
R

Read and digest:

Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries

docs.freebsd.org

I read the handbook, must read it again and again. For now dealt with the pkg part as follows:

doas mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
  434  11/05/22 20:20:57 cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
  435  11/05/22 20:21:05 doas cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
  436  11/05/22 20:21:40 doas ee /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
  437  11/05/22 20:23:13 doas nano /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
  439  11/05/22 20:25:08 doas pkg update -f
  440  11/05/22 20:25:38 pkg info pkg
  441  11/05/22 20:27:03 pkg audit -F
  443  11/05/22 20:27:22 doas pkg upgrade
  444  11/05/22 20:34:48 doas pkg autoremove # didn't say yes, it showed 5 GB of files to be removed.
  446  11/05/22 20:35:58 pkg prime-list
  447  11/05/22 20:36:35 pkg prime-origins
  448  11/05/22 20:41:36 doas pkg clean # didn't say yes, it showed 1 GB of files to be removed.
  449  11/05/22 20:46:49 # poudriere jail -c -j 11amd64 -v 11.4-RELEASE
  450  11/05/22 20:46:49 # poudriere jail -c -j bsd13 -v 13.0-RELEASE
  451  11/05/22 20:46:58 poudriere jail -c -j bsd13 -v 13.0-RELEASE
  456  11/05/22 20:50:02 doas pkg install firefox  # proceeded smoothly but showed the following as in the quote below:
  457  11/05/22 20:51:31 firefox # launched. Worked.

After reboot ran commands

pkg clean #1GB
pkg autoremove #5GB
pkg clean -a
init 6

Now in a plasma login loop. Command line in Alt F2 allows root login, not user login. Will revisit steps that I had taken to solve the problem

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

Sivan! said:
Thank you.

This is what happens:

cd /usr/ports/www/firefox doas make install clean .... ===> node-17.0.1_1 has known vulnerabilities: node-17.0.1_1 is vulnerable: Node.js -- January 2022 Security Releases CVE: CVE-2022-21824 CVE: CVE-2021-44533 CVE: CVE-2021-44532 CVE: CVE-2021-44531 WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/972ba0e8-8b8a-11ec-b369-6c3be5272acd.html 1 problem(s) in 1 installed package(s) found. => Please update your ports tree and try again. => Note: Vulnerable ports are marked as such even if there is no update available. => If you wish to ignore this vulnerability rebuild with 'make DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes' *** Error code 1 Stop. make[3]: stopped in /usr/ports/www/node *** Error code 1 Stop. make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/www/node *** Error code 1 Stop. make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/www/firefox *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped in /usr/ports/www/firefox

I also tried installing firefox as a package

doas pkg install firefox The following 26 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): Installed packages to be [COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)][B]REMOVED[/B][/COLOR]: chromium: 101.0.4951.41 harfbuzz-icu: 4.2.1_1 iridium-browser: 2022.04.100.0_3 kde5: 5.24.4.22.04.0 kdeedu: 22.04.0 kdepim: 22.04.0 kdepim-addons: 22.04.0_1 kitinerary: 22.04.0_4 marble: 22.04.0 tex-dvipsk: 2021.1 tex-formats: 20210325_1 texlive-base: 20210325_3 texlive-texmf: 20210325 New packages to be INSTALLED: firefox: 100.0_3,2 Installed packages to be [COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)][B]DOWNGRADED[/B][/COLOR]: boost-libs: 1.72.0_7 -> 1.72.0_6 icu: 71.1,1 -> 70.1_1,1 libical: 3.0.8_6 -> 3.0.8_5 libphonenumber: 8.12.47 -> 8.12.44_1 libqalculate: 4.1.1_1 -> 4.1.0_2 protobuf: 3.20.1,1 -> 3.19.4,1 qt5-core: 5.15.2p263_2 -> 5.15.2p263_1 qt5-webkit: 5.212.0.a4_10 -> 5.212.0.a4_9 samba412: 4.12.15_4 -> 4.12.15_3 spidermonkey78: 78.15.0 -> 78.9.0_7 Installed packages to be REINSTALLED: freerdp-2.7.0 (needed shared library changed) mysql57-server-5.7.38 (needed shared library changed) Number of packages to be removed: 13 Number of packages to be installed: 1 Number of packages to be reinstalled: 2 Number of packages to be downgraded: 10 The operation will free 3 GiB.

The firefox installation package removal / downgrade issue was because I hadn't set up the pkg installation process right. I have also mixed up pkg installation and port installation, not to mention multiple cross commands invoking portmaster, portsnap and portupgrade. As far the pkg method was concerned, I had to change from quarterly to latest repository, as shown in the post in my reply to Geezer above.

After changing to the latest repository, firefox installation proceeded smoothly.

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

Sivan! said:
I read the handbook, must read it again and again. For now dealt with the pkg part as follows:

doas mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos 434 11/05/22 20:20:57 cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf 435 11/05/22 20:21:05 doas cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf 436 11/05/22 20:21:40 doas ee /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf 437 11/05/22 20:23:13 doas nano /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf 439 11/05/22 20:25:08 doas pkg update -f 440 11/05/22 20:25:38 pkg info pkg 441 11/05/22 20:27:03 pkg audit -F 443 11/05/22 20:27:22 doas pkg upgrade 444 11/05/22 20:34:48 doas pkg autoremove # didn't say yes, it showed 5 GB of files to be removed. 446 11/05/22 20:35:58 pkg prime-list 447 11/05/22 20:36:35 pkg prime-origins 448 11/05/22 20:41:36 doas pkg clean # didn't say yes, it showed 1 GB of files to be removed. 449 11/05/22 20:46:49 # poudriere jail -c -j 11amd64 -v 11.4-RELEASE 450 11/05/22 20:46:49 # poudriere jail -c -j bsd13 -v 13.0-RELEASE 451 11/05/22 20:46:58 poudriere jail -c -j bsd13 -v 13.0-RELEASE 456 11/05/22 20:50:02 doas pkg install firefox # proceeded smoothly but showed the following as in the quote below: 457 11/05/22 20:51:31 firefox # launched. Worked.

After reboot ran commands pkg clean #1GB pkg autoremove #5GB pkg clean -a init 6

Now in a plasma login loop. Command line in Alt F2 allows root login, not user login. Will revisit steps that I had taken to solve the problem

Update: Plasma login loop issue as occurred resolved.

An untested theory about the login loop: I have experienced an xfce login loop problem, and now a kde plasma login loop problem. On both instances, none of the fixes worked, the problem seemed to relate to bash not working in login after an update of some sort. This is to say that xfce login screen or the plasma login screen (and also the F1 F2 console accessed with Alt+Ctl+F1 ( from the plasma login screen that didn't work) seemed to expect the user to be on the sh shell. I was on bash when the xfce login issue arose. I changed back to sh, then installed kde plasma, the plasma login as user worked the first time as I was in sh shell. Then I changed to bash, plasma login continued to work. After that I went through some kind of a major update, and on reboot, user login did not work on plasma, nor on the console screen. I tried fixes, nothing worked, changed back to sh, I could login.

Sivan! · May 11, 2022

Geezer said:
I have only found zoom runs easily in firefox.

After changing from quarterly to latest repository, and after a pakage upgrade, zoom audio, video and slides work fine both in Chromium and Iridium. Thanks

Geezer · May 12, 2022

Freebsd takes quite some time fiddling (techinical word) and understanding. But can do pretty much everything.

Sivan! · May 12, 2022

Geezer said:
Freebsd takes quite some time fiddling (techinical word) and understanding. But can do pretty much everything.

Yes it is well architectured, evolved and evolving, and robust.