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#1 2013-04-11 10:08:15

HarD
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[SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

After upgrade to Gnome 3.8 - skype cann't start now (core dumped) on i686.
On x86_64 it works fine on Gnome 3.8

If i downgrade to 3.6 - skype is works fine...

Does anybody have this issue?

Last edited by HarD (2013-04-23 15:57:28)

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#2 2013-04-16 12:11:20

Harey
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

I updated on Monday via pacman -Syuu and Skype is segfaulting on me as well. I have KDE, not gnome.
This is on an i686 machine.

Last edited by Harey (2013-04-16 12:11:40)


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#3 2013-04-17 16:07:43

mango123
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

And on me skype going core dump.
Using x86_64 in openbox.

Last edited by mango123 (2013-04-17 16:08:40)

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#4 2013-04-18 09:06:11

nperry
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

I seem to be getting the same today.. I only use Skype once in a blue moon, so not sure when this started.

Got some gdb love for you.

─╼ gdb /usr/lib32/skype/skype 
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.1
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/lib32/skype/skype...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib32/skype/skype 
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-gate.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) backtrace 
#0  0x080796e8 in malloc@plt ()
#1  0xf52032e3 in g_malloc () from /usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2  0xf52035ab in g_malloc_n () from /usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0xf520d2d7 in g_quark_from_static_string () from /usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0xf508b902 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5  0xf7feae7e in call_init () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#6  0xf7feaf4c in _dl_init_internal () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#7  0xf7fdd0cf in _dl_start_user () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080796e8 in malloc@plt ()

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#5 2013-04-18 13:46:11

hacosta
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

I'm getting the same error as nperry,  I'm guessing is related with the lib32-glib2 upgrade.

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#6 2013-04-18 17:45:23

mango123
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

$ yaourt -S multilib/lib32-glib2
worked for me.

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#7 2013-04-21 17:41:05

Liuuutas
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

I can confirm that downgrading glib2 worked for me as well.

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#8 2013-04-22 06:14:27

HarD
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

But it not solve problem for i686..., now new glib2  in core... and Skype not work too )

Last edited by HarD (2013-04-22 06:15:09)

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#9 2013-04-22 08:54:59

xzy3186
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

The same issue here with i686 archlinux.

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#10 2013-04-22 09:08:17

Harey
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

There is a bug report for arch: FS#34630 and an upstream bug report here:
https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCL-977
The upstream bug has a workaround for the time being.

Harvey


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#11 2013-04-22 10:06:26

feng.zh.zq
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

Liuuutas wrote:

I can confirm that downgrading glib2 worked for me as well.

Yes. I can confirm that. Just downgrade this package. All will work well.

And here's an available official repo from China.

http://mirrors.sohu.com/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64/

I can't find other official repo with lib32-glib2-2.34.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz available except this one.

**** downgrade from 2.36 to 2.34. ****

Aoso, some may face the problem that gdm fails to startup. Temporary, I switch to other launcher to launch gnome-shell.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by feng.zh.zq (2013-04-22 10:14:33)

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#12 2013-04-23 08:34:34

rajesh4091989
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

Confirmed on my system (i686 KDE) rollback to glib2-2.34 works fine.

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#13 2013-04-23 08:46:48

cecco
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

Confirm on my system xfce x86_64.
i rolled back using [url=http://arm.konnichi.com/multilib/os/x86_64/lib32-glib2-2.34.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz]
http://arm.konnichi.com/multilib/os/x86_64/lib32-glib2-2.34.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz[/url] and now skype is working

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#14 2013-04-23 15:03:05

kesara10
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

Had it in the cache and worked for me too
yaourt -U /opt/arch/pacman/pkg/lib32-glib2-2.34.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

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#15 2013-04-23 15:17:55

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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

You can avoid downgrade by just installing in your home folder the one library that mess up things with skype.
Take a look here : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154571


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#16 2013-04-23 15:24:07

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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

The new lib32-glib2 2.36.1-3 fixes the problem.


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#17 2013-04-23 15:36:55

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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

Thanks, I just did another upgrade to lib32-glib2 2.36.1-3 and skype is working for me again.

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#18 2013-04-24 06:52:57

cecco
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Re: [SOLVED] [Gnome 3.8] Skype core (core dumped) on i686 after upgrade

I confirm after an update skype works again

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