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KrautHedge

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Registered: 2010-07-04

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Skype closes immediately after signing in.

When ran in the terminal "glibc detected *** skype: corrupted double-linked list" is displayed upon crash. If I keep opening skype eventually it stops crashing. I am running 64bit if that makes a difference.

Last edited by KrautHedge (2011-06-18 14:49:01)

whitethorn

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Registered: 2010-05-02

Posts: 153

Re: [SOLVED] Skype closes immediately after signing in.

What helped me was creating a folder called "Logs" in .Skype. As odd as it seems, after creating the folder it started running stable again.

cd ~/.Skype
mkdir Logs
skype &

KrautHedge

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Registered: 2010-07-04

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Skype closes immediately after signing in.

Awesome that worked perfectly. thank you so much for the help. I was pulling my hair out trying to fix this.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED] Skype closes immediately after signing in.

Please mark the thread as [Solved] and report the problem to microsoft.

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