Running os11.3 64 bit on Toshiba notebook, skype appears to start and shows the log-in screen briefly then crashes.
I’ve checked the several posts here and have the 32 bit lib files installed, but still no joy.
Any suggestions?
I would check here to see if there is anything you have left out:
Release Notes - Skype for Linux
There is a mention of using Pulseaudio as an optional item. I have a script that can test audio and enable or disable Pulse.
S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool
And, just in case there is any sort of Multimedia issue, why not check out your settings with this script:
MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed by RedDwarf
Message #21 has the most recent copy of mmcheck.
I would check out these suggestions and return to let us know if anything here panned out to a success story. If you have trouble creating a bash script, please let me know.
Thank You,
Got all the mm stuff sorted out but unfortunately that wasn’t the problem.
After several attempts to start skype, I can now see it is showing speeding through the log in screen and crashing when contacts are shown.
Can you run it from terminal and post any output here when it crashes?
Here it is, I’ve never seen this this before:
wlz@linux-yijs:~> skype
shm_open() failed: Permission denied
Aborted
My wife reported this morning to me, that every time she tried to login as Skype (on a 64-bit openSUSE-11.3 KDE-4.4.4) it would crash. She was in our room in the ‘hospitality suite’ of the retirement residence where my mother is staying, and I was in my mother’s suite, and we were hoping to test Skype. So I told my wife to shutdown the laptop, bring it up to my mother’s suite, and we would try testing here in my mother’s suite (and I could see the error messages with the crash better). My wife shut down the laptop, brought it up here, and she could not reproduce the problem. It just worked now when she turned it on in my mother’s suite.
It appears shutting down and restarting openSUSE cured the problem. The only ‘guess’ that I have is there was some process of a previous Skype instance that did not shut down properly, and was still running, and was interfering with the new session. If this happens again, try looking at:
ps -A
to see if you can identify any errant processes. … Note also I don’t know much about Skype, having only tried to set it up over the past few days such that we can use it to chat with my mother when we (my wife and I) are back in Europe and my mother still here in Canada.
Restarting makes no difference.
Not sure what an errant process would look like, but here is the result:
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:00 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
6 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
7 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
8 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1
9 ? 00:00:00 events/0
10 ? 00:00:00 events/1
11 ? 00:00:00 netns
12 ? 00:00:00 async/mgr
13 ? 00:00:00 pm
14 ? 00:00:00 sync_supers
15 ? 00:00:00 bdi-default
16 ? 00:00:00 kintegrityd/0
17 ? 00:00:00 kintegrityd/1
18 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
19 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/1
20 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
21 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
22 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_hotplug
23 ? 00:00:00 khubd
24 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
27 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/0
28 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/1
29 ? 00:00:00 khelper
30 ? 00:00:00 khungtaskd
31 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
32 ? 00:00:00 ksmd
33 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
34 ? 00:00:00 aio/1
35 ? 00:00:00 crypto/0
36 ? 00:00:00 crypto/1
38 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
39 ? 00:00:00 usbhid_resumer
242 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
243 ? 00:00:00 ata/1
244 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
245 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
246 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
247 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
248 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
249 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_4
250 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_5
333 ? 00:00:00 jbd2/sda5-8
334 ? 00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
335 ? 00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
341 ? 00:00:00 flush-8:0
398 ? 00:00:00 stapio
403 ? 00:00:00 systemtap/0
404 ? 00:00:00 systemtap/1
412 ? 00:00:00 startpar
424 ? 00:00:00 udevd
637 ? 00:00:00 kmmcd
650 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_8
652 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
654 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_9
655 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
742 ? 00:00:00 hd-audio0
765 ? 00:00:00 hd-audio1
882 ? 00:00:00 kstriped
931 ? 00:00:00 jbd2/sda7-8
932 ? 00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
933 ? 00:00:00 ext4-dio-unwrit
938 ? 00:00:00 mount.ntfs-3g
1391 ? 00:00:00 acpid
1414 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
1455 ? 00:00:00 kconservative/0
1456 ? 00:00:00 kconservative/1
1464 ? 00:00:00 hald
1466 ? 00:00:00 console-kit-dae
1532 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
1576 ? 00:00:00 rsyslogd
1591 ? 00:00:00 kdm
1603 tty7 00:00:09 Xorg
1623 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
1636 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-gene
1638 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-cpuf
1639 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
1650 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
1669 ? 00:00:00 auditd
1672 ? 00:00:00 kauditd
1679 ? 00:00:00 rpcbind
1702 ? 00:00:00 sshd
1797 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
1799 ? 00:00:00 modem-manager
1801 ? 00:00:00 kdm
1872 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant
1887 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
1888 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
1908 ? 00:00:00 irqbalance
1968 ? 00:00:00 mysqld_safe
2036 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
2092 ? 00:00:00 mysqld
2130 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
2138 ? 00:00:00 udevd
2145 ? 00:00:00 nscd
2273 ? 00:00:00 master
2308 ? 00:00:00 cron
2310 ? 00:00:00 pickup
2311 ? 00:00:00 qmgr
2314 ? 00:00:00 smartd
2335 ? 00:00:00 startkde
2483 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
2484 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
2491 ? 00:00:00 start_kdeinit
2492 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit4
2493 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
2495 ? 00:00:00 kded4
2533 ? 00:00:00 udisks-daemon
2537 ? 00:00:00 udisks-daemon
2635 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper4
2636 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
2638 ? 00:00:02 kwin
2640 ? 00:00:00 kglobalaccel
2642 ? 00:00:02 plasma-desktop
2644 ? 00:00:00 knotify4
2650 ? 00:00:00 ksysguardd
2651 ? 00:00:00 kio_trash
2652 ? 00:00:00 kio_desktop
2653 ? 00:00:00 kio_file
2655 ? 00:00:00 kaccess
2662 ? 00:00:00 kxkb
2670 ? 00:00:00 krunner
2678 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio
2680 ? 00:00:00 rtkit-daemon
2681 ? 00:00:00 polkit-kde-auth
2688 ? 00:00:03 polkitd
2689 ? 00:00:00 klipper
2691 ? 00:00:00 kupdateapplet
2693 ? 00:00:00 kmix
2696 ? 00:00:00 knetworkmanager
2699 ? 00:00:00 kwalletd
2723 ? 00:00:00 gconf-helper
2725 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
2766 ? 00:00:00 stop_preload
2767 ? 00:00:00 waitforidle
2768 ? 00:00:00 startpar
2850 tty1 00:00:00 mingetty
2851 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
2852 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
2853 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
2854 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
2855 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
2863 ? 00:00:00 kwalletmanager
2866 ? 00:00:00 pppd
2870 ? 00:00:00 udevd
3337 ? 00:00:00 konsole
3341 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
3374 pts/1 00:00:00 ps
In that case it is unlikely it is an errant process.
What does that mean ? 32 bit lib ? I have no such files associated directly with skype.
I installed this version of skype: skype-2.1.0.47-6.1.x86_64
which I obtained from this repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.3_NonFree_standard/
after adding that repository, successfully installing skype, I immediately removed the repository.
I don’t know what 32-bit files you are referring to?
I downloaded directly from skype as could find no link to a 64 bit.
Where are instructions to add the repo you used?
You add this one like any other. Open YasT / Software Repositories / Add / Url and enter:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.3_NonFree_standard/
You must give it a name such as Skype and press OK and then Accept. You should then be able to load YaST / Software Management and search on SKYPE. If you have two files with the same name, switch to the versions tab and elect to get the file from the new repository you added OR, you could press the View Button, switch to repositories, pick your new repository and elect to Switch to the files it contains. All files you have loaded and included in the new repository would then be replaced in mass.
Thank You,
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:36:02 +0530, zuser
<zuser@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I downloaded directly from skype as could find no link to a 64 bit.
> Where are instructions to add the repo you used?
there’s no 64bit version of skype. whatever you downloaded from their
website is 32bit too, and needs the compatibility packages as well. at the
moment i’m also using the version from skype.com; you find an opeenSUSE
repo here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.3
–
phani.
Thanks for the reply. Got it installed and deleted the files downloaded from skype.
Only problem remaining is sound. Absolutely nothing in or out and there are no options for sound devices, only pulse audio. Is there a problem with skype and pulse audio?
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:36:01 +0530, zuser
<zuser@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Only problem remaining is sound. Absolutely nothing in or out and there
> are no options for sound devices, only pulse audio. Is there a problem
> with skype and pulse audio?
do you have pulseaudio installed & running? i had it installed, but it
wasn’t enabled by default. you can start it from a (user) terminal with
“pulseaudio --start”.
–
phani.
On my very first message I mention my START script, which includes the ability to enable or disable Pulseaudio and mmcheck, to check all of your multimedia. If you have ALREADY downloaded and used these programs, don’t forget to open up your mixer and add all of the available channels to your mixer. Then look for muted channels and levels at zero. While not the same thing, but media related, I was setting one PC yesterday to play iTunes movie trailers. All other sound worked fine, but no sound from the movies. After putting all channels into the mixer, I noticed that the headphone output was muted. I not sure if there is even a headphone output for the sound, but when I unmuted the “headphone”, all of a sudden the movies had sound. Why would this matter to one application? I don’t know, but before you go off on the deep end, check all mixer channels.
S.T.A.R.T. - SuSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool
MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed by RedDwarf
If you follow my media setup, you can play iTunes movies and perhaps Skype will work as well.
Thank You,
Thanks for quick replies and suggestions.
Skype appears to be working now after a few tweaks indicated by the ‘start’ and ‘mmcheck’.
All seems in order except no response from test #4 in ‘start’.
Thanks for quick replies and suggestions.
Skype appears to be working now after a few tweaks indicated by the ‘start’ and ‘mmcheck’.
All seems in order except no response from test #4 in ‘start’.
Option #4 in START uses a program called aplay which is part of the application listed in alsa-utils in YaST / Software Management. Test #1 in START does show if this is installed. Perhaps you do not have that loaded on your PC. This is if we can assume you did enter the l, r, or t as requested.
It is no big thing however if we can say that this issue has been solved, Yea!!!. It sounds like you needed to add the new repository, which determined the version of SKYPE you where using and perhaps an issue with your multimedia setup. As a relative new user here, I normally add a few more things to our success message about the openSUSE forums. For more information on how it all works, you should visit this area:
In addition, here are a couple of other important items:
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Thank You,
It happens if any file is lost during instalation or any file is becoe corruted by malware. I think your skype is late version or downloaded from any untrusted site. However you can try to reinstall it properly. if you face any more problem then try to get help in http://www.techyv.com/questions/skype-not-re-installing-after-un-installation