[DNG] Skype crashes
Haines Brown
haines at histomat.net
Tue Dec 7 13:59:45 CET 2021
On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 12:21:27AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > I'm running Chimera. I downloaded current version of skypeforlinux
> > and installed it. The annoying prompts for password to keyring
> > I skip.
> >
> > The audo and video test ok. But when I try to make a free test call,
> > Skype crashes.
>
>
> I have similar issues.
> I have skype for Linux on 3 different systems:
> - stable Gentoo, intel i5, very barebones setup (no pulseaudio, no
> gnome, just windowmaker) -> restarts at each call
> - beowulf amd64 -> restarts at each call
> - i7 with beowulf, everything works. But this one runs xfce and has all
> its dependencies installed like puleseaudio, udev, etc etc
>
> I do not think that it is a version or CPU issue, but something in skype
> pretending that certain dameons or interfaces running, I did not
> determine which yet.
>
> Since skype became a wrapped web application, it beame a mess and a hog.
>
> Riccardo
Thanks, Riccardo.
So did you simply give up on Skype? Did you try to install an older version
of SkypeforLinux-64.deb?
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Haines Brown
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