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Linux Mint 19 — TeamViewer does not start

Post by weblike » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:11 am

Just installed Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon and having some trouble on installing TeamViewer 11. The GUI of teamviewer does not start.

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Re: Linux Mint 19 — TeamViewer does not start

Post by Pierre » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:17 am

so I’ve had lots of fun in getting the i386 version of TV working on my LM19/64 bit Mate.
— should have got the 64 bit version, but what the heck . .

the thing is, that I’ve better results with TV 13 than with TV 12,
both needed lots of i386 files ( which is why the 64bit works better )

any reason that you still are using TV 11 ? and is it 32 / 64 bit ?

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Re: Linux Mint 19 — TeamViewer does not start

Post by weblike » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:51 am

I have license on TV 11. and I have tried both 32 and 64 . neither works.

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Re: Linux Mint 19 — TeamViewer does not start

Post by Pierre » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:57 am

is it trying to install any extra Files at all ?
& is there any Error messages, when trying to install TV 11 ?.

you may need to find the Installation Log & general TV files,
so that you can ask for TeamViewer Support, since you have a Valid Licence.

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Re: Linux Mint 19 — TeamViewer does not start

Post by weblike » Fri Jul 06, 2018 3:27 am

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I have just reinstalled Arch on my new laptop, and has, on the old laptop, been using Teamviewer without any problems. However, on the new install, after starting the teamviewerd service, I can’t start Teamviewer.

When I try to run teamviewer, the following happens:

$ teamviewer Init. CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes XRandRWait: No value set. Using default. XRandRWait: Started by user. Checking setup. Launching TeamViewer . Launching TeamViewer GUI . 

It don’t continue after «Launching TeamViewer GUI . «.

Any idea on why this happens would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by Fred7109 (2017-10-08 16:16:55)

#2 2017-10-08 09:33:12

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

#3 2017-10-08 13:35:45

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

signed
I have not tried it yet, but let’s try the following

teamviewer –daemon start teamviewer &

#4 2017-10-08 14:42:05

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

This error is posted in the AUR comment section. Take these steps as the work around:
(from here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/team … ments=all)

1. clone lib32-freetype:
$ asp checkout lib32-freetype2
$ cd lib32-freetype2/trunk

2: checkout last 2.8 revision:
$ git checkout 3746440f041493db9cb4ada7f328412da9880322

3. copy library to Teamviewer’s library path:
$ sudo cp pkg/lib32-freetype2/usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6.14.0 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/RTlib/libfreetype.so.6

#5 2017-10-08 14:57:33

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

fixed the problem by installing lib32-freetype2 2.8-2 downloaded from archive

#6 2017-10-08 16:15:53

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

Thank you for the help Boring_nick, I also got the problem solved by installing lib32-freetype2 2.8-2 downloaded from the archive.

This error is posted in the AUR comment section. Take these steps as the work around:
(from here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/team … ments=all)

Thank you for pointing out it stood in the comment section, which I hadn’t seen unfortunately.

signed
I have not tried it yet, but let’s try the following

teamviewer –daemon start teamviewer &

I had started the daemon, however, thank you for pointing it out, as it could have been the problem.

#7 2017-10-09 14:43:48

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

Steps to solve:
1) Download https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … pkg.tar.xz
2) Move to the folder you downloaded the package.
3) sudo pacman -U lib32-freetype2-2.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

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#8 2017-10-12 11:06:41

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

those steps work for me indeed, thank you!

Steps to solve:
1) Download https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … pkg.tar.xz
2) Move to the folder you downloaded the package.
3) sudo pacman -U lib32-freetype2-2.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

#9 2017-10-14 14:55:31

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

telis80’s commands work for me too !
After a restart ! Thanks a lot guys !

Last edited by glcv (2017-10-14 15:06:01)

#10 2017-10-23 20:14:01

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

Steps to solve:
1) Download https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … pkg.tar.xz
2) Move to the folder you downloaded the package.
3) sudo pacman -U lib32-freetype2-2.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed to get Teamviewer running again after a recent update.

#11 2017-11-02 17:49:56

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

Don’t forget to also add lib32-freetype2 to IgnorePkgs in /etc/pacman.conf!

#12 2017-11-06 21:53:11

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

Don’t forget to also add lib32-freetype2 to IgnorePkgs in /etc/pacman.conf!

Oh, that would probably explain why I have to reinstall lib32-freetype2 every time I update. Thanks for the tip!

#13 2017-12-07 10:44:19

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

#14 2018-01-25 10:09:19

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

I had the had the same problem.

That workaround did the trick for me aswell.
Im not sure however that this lib is the real problem.

Before this workaround i did:
# sudo systemctl restart teamviewerd.service
After that i could connect teamviewer aswell. Only i had to do this after every reboot.

I hope this info helps for a permanent fix.

Last edited by Gunther74 (2018-01-25 10:09:56)

#15 2018-03-31 13:11:01

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

Hi, I have same proble with teamviewer13 from aur:

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

I have installed freetype2-2.2.9-2, lib32-freetype2-2.9-2, fontconfig 2.13.0+10+g58f5285-1 and lib32-fontconfig 2.13.0+10+g58f5285-1 but it doesn’t work even with previous versions freetype2-2.8-2 & fontconfig2.12.6-1

teamviewerd is enabled and started

Last edited by franco4657 (2018-03-31 13:11:32)

#16 2018-04-02 19:17:40

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

Solved with lightdm, teamviewer start only with a DM. at this time

#17 2018-04-20 15:27:41

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

What if i cant downgrad efreetype because of steam ?

#18 2018-04-20 15:30:28

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

You do the more sane thing and only provide the old dependency to the old utility https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1779224

#19 2018-06-12 20:35:07

Re: [SOLVED]Teamviewer doesn’t continue from «Launching TeamViewer GUI. «

The proposed work around does not work for me:

pacman -Q | grep freetype
freetype2 2.9.1-1
lib32-freetype2 2.8-2

systemctl status teamviewerd.service
● teamviewerd.service — TeamViewer remote control daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/teamviewerd.service; disabled; vendo>
Active: active (running) since Tue 2018-06-12 21:54:13 CEST; 6min ago
Process: 2182 ExecStart=/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d (code=exited, s>
Main PID: 2184 (teamviewerd)
Tasks: 16 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 14.6M
CGroup: /system.slice/teamviewerd.service
└─2184 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d

Jun 12 21:54:13 desktop-hp-8200-elite systemd[1]: Starting TeamViewer remote co>
Jun 12 21:54:13 desktop-hp-8200-elite systemd[1]: teamviewerd.service: Can’t op>
Jun 12 21:54:13 desktop-hp-8200-elite systemd[1]: Started TeamViewer remote con>
lines 1-13/13 (END). skipping.
● teamviewerd.service — TeamViewer remote control daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/teamviewerd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2018-06-12 21:54:13 CEST; 6min ago
Process: 2182 ExecStart=/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2184 (teamviewerd)
Tasks: 16 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 14.6M
CGroup: /system.slice/teamviewerd.service
└─2184 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d

Jun 12 21:54:13 desktop-hp-8200-elite systemd[1]: Starting TeamViewer remote control daemon.
Jun 12 21:54:13 desktop-hp-8200-elite systemd[1]: teamviewerd.service: Can’t open PID file /var/run/teamviewerd.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
Jun 12 21:54:13 desktop-hp-8200-elite systemd[1]: Started TeamViewer remote control daemon.

teamviewer

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

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TeamViewer does not start automatically, how do I make sure it does?

After installing TeamViewer x86 on Ubuntu, it will not start automatically on boot, even when telling it to do so via the application settings («Start TeamViewer with system»). How do I make sure TeamViewer starts with the system, before even logging in?

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TeamViewer provides a script called teamviewerd.sysv available in /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script . Here’s an excerpt:

#!/bin/bash # # /etc/init.d/teamviewerd # # chkconfig: 2345 95 05 # description: daemon for TeamViewer # # processname: teamviewerd # config: /etc/teamviewer/global.conf # pidfile: /var/run/teamviewerd.pid ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: teamviewerd # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Required-Start: $all # Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $named # Short-Description: TeamViewer remote control daemon # Description: TeamViewer remote control daemon ### END INIT INFO 

All you need to do is make sure this script runs on startup. Making sure of this is relatively simple, just copy it to /etc/init.d like so:

cd /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script sudo cp teamviewerd.sysv /etc/init.d/ 

Don’t forget to make the script non-writable to anyone but the owner!

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/teamviewerd.sysv 

sudo update-rc.d teamviewerd.sysv defaults 

The service will now start automatically with each boot. If you don’t feel like rebooting, you can start the service manually with:

sudo service teamviewerd.sysv start 

2019 EDIT: This answer was written in 2013. Since then, systemd has arrived in force and is normally used for constructing services that start upon boot. For instructions on how to achieve this in systemd instead, please see this question: How do I run a single command at startup using systemd?

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