Skype 1.1.0.13 installs fine and everything works, except that the linux/python examples of connecting to the API do not work. The reason for this is turns out was mentioned on their forums but as far as I'm aware has never been reported to them as a solid bug. Currently skype looks for the dbus communication socket in the fixed location /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket, rather than where gentoo installs it (/var/lib/dbus/system_bus_socket). This means the API isn't available on the default gentoo installation. The best fix would be an upstream one, however a temporary workaround is a symlink which works fine. Any other suggestions would be appreciated since that's not the nicest of fixes... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge skype. 2. Download the skype linux/python API example. 3. Fire up skype, then run the example. Actual Results: The example said that skype wasn't found. Expected Results: The example should have said skype was found and started up fine. Please also note that as of 1.1.0.20 this still has not been fixed upstream in skype itself. Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.13-rc1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-rc1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/personal" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acl acpi adns alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts boundschecking cairo ccache cdr cjk client crypt cups djvu dlloader dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glitz gnome gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mmx mmxext motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic pie plot png postgres python quicktime readline real sdl server snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga t1lib tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96451 ***
