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samebchase

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Registered: 2012-01-31

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Skype crashing soon after login

Hi Everyone,

I'm using OSS.

I installed skype-oss and successfully managed to use it yesterday.

I tried to revert back to ALSA this morning, but as I wasn't able to get it working, I decided to stick to OSS.

Skype just crashes soon after I login. I've tried what was suggested here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sk … mmediately , but it hasn't helped.

Contents of:

1. /etc/modprobe.d/alsa_blacklist.conf

blacklist soundcore

2. rc.conf

DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng !network netfs crond oss dbus wicd)

gdb output:

(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/skype
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xb76a4b40 (LWP 943)]
[New Thread 0xb74c1b40 (LWP 944)]
[New Thread 0xb72ffb40 (LWP 945)]
[New Thread 0xb6afeb40 (LWP 946)]
[New Thread 0xb68ffb40 (LWP 947)]
[New Thread 0xb687eb40 (LWP 948)]
[New Thread 0xb67fdb40 (LWP 949)]
[New Thread 0xb677cb40 (LWP 950)]
[Thread 0xb67fdb40 (LWP 949) exited]
[New Thread 0xb5f7bb40 (LWP 951)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x08355977 in ?? ()

Is there anything I can do to get Skype working again?

Thanks,

Samuel

Last edited by samebchase (2012-03-13 17:23:18)

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: [SOLVED] Skype crashing soon after login

Ehm... Does your sound work with oss? As in can you hear sound?
Try fresh Skype configuration directory:

mv ~/.Skype ~/.Skype_bcc

To revert back to ALSA you need to uninstall OSS and remove the blacklisted modules, and then restart or

modprobe soundcore

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samebchase

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Registered: 2012-01-31

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Skype crashing soon after login

Oh. Yes, I forgot to mention that.

Sound works as usual.

samebchase

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Registered: 2012-01-31

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Skype crashing soon after login

Thank you Dheart!

That's all it took to make it working again. All I did was to move that dir.

:-)

Samuel

Last edited by samebchase (2012-03-13 17:17:17)