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cu3edweb

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 291

bin32-skype seg fault

I am getting a segmentation fault with bin32-skype. If worked fine before but I have not used it in about a month so I am not sure where it broke.

Any ideas?

Thanks

here is the output from terminal

QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed
QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed
Segmentation fault

Last edited by cu3edweb (2009-06-13 23:40:03)

cu3edweb

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 291

Re: bin32-skype seg fault

No one else is having this problem?

blasse

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 303

Re: bin32-skype seg fault

I has got it about week ago. It has gone couple of days ago. Don't know which update cause this....

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netmanny

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 41

Re: bin32-skype seg fault

If you are using ext4 that may be your propblem.
May be you need to remove all of the skype files and re install..
Just a sujestion, not a solution ok...

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: bin32-skype seg fault

Fully up-to-date system as of yesterday and skype is working just fine. Filesystem shouldn't matter I would suspect the config files, just rename the .Skype folder and start skype again.

In any case my setup is like this (among other partitions)
/ ext4
/home ext3

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SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: bin32-skype seg fault

I find skype on linux to be a bloody nuisance, if I didn't have to use it for work I probably wouldn't bother. Chances are you may need to upgrade a support package as something it has compiled against has changed.  If you have yaourt installed, run

yaourt -Syu --aur

and it will check aur to see if any of the lib32 packages you have installed from there are out of date.   You will probably find a couple.

HTH

Si

pielgrzym

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Registered: 2010-02-18

Posts: 49

Re: bin32-skype seg fault

The problem is closely related to settings - if you choose gtk+ in appereance style it will continue segfaulting. Clearlooks and native qt styles work fine...

As a temporary fix you can remove ~/.Skype (or rename it) - it will fallback to Clearlooks and start working again.

Last edited by pielgrzym (2010-02-18 16:43:21)