Hi all,
I have Fedora 16, and my problem is that I can't run Skype neither
Google-Talk Plugin for videoconferences. Skype simply crashes
[mstorti@galileo ~]$ gdb skype
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/skype...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
skype-2.2.0.35-fc10.i586
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/skype
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x81a8ab40 (LWP 6904)]
[New Thread 0x819e4b40 (LWP 6905)]
[New Thread 0x81963b40 (LWP 6906)]
[New Thread 0x816afb40 (LWP 6907)]
[New Thread 0x814ffb40 (LWP 6908)]
[New Thread 0x8147eb40 (LWP 6909)]
[New Thread 0x813fdb40 (LWP 6910)]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x816afb40 (LWP 6907)]
0x4fab511e in pthread_getschedparam () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
And Google-Talk also doesn't start, it offers me to install the plugin
for chat and video, but in fact I have it installed and I think that
it is the latest version.
Name : google-talkplugin
Version : 2.1.6.0
The most amazing thing is that I can run OK both Skype and
Google-Talkplugin UNDER OTHER USER IN THE SAME MACHINE (my user is
`mstorti', and I created another `mstorti2' just to try things). Right
now my workaround is to switch to user `mstorti2' each time I have a
videoconf, but it is getting too annoying!! :-(
Also I can say that I used Skype/Google-Talkplugin without problems
before, I think that something was messed up with some upgrade almost
6 months ago (perhaps when upgrading to Fedora 15 or near).
I think it is a problem of configuration of either the camera of the
audio, but
* I have audio OK, for instance in Amarok or Firefox/Youtube
* I can record audio in Audacity
* I test my camera in System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon -> Video
Recording and it seems OK.
The only conflict that I note is that when I start a video on YouTube
I can't hear at the sometime music from Amarok for instance. (It's
probably useless anyway, but I report this because normally I could to
that before all this problem started).
I am sometimes tempted to do a fresh install of Fedora from scratch,
but I'm somewhat lazy because I have a lot of packages locally
installed (I'm using this system since 2007) and I'm skeptic that it
will help.
Any ideas??
TIA, Mario
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