Bug 107199 – Skype 1.2.0.17: Select a language other than English is impossible

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rico Poser 2005-09-25 10:45:28 UTC]

Whenever a language other than English is chosen, the selection remains ineffective.

Problem: Skype expects all language files in /usr/share/skype/lang while it is
installed in /opt/skype/lang.

Solution: Creating a symlink for /usr/share/skype pointing to /opt/skype.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Kathryn Kulick (RETIRED) 2005-09-26 06:58:57 UTC]

I changed the languages to a few different ones today, and all of them were
working okay here.

[Comment 2 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) 2005-09-26 07:32:03 UTC]

Actually i can duplicate this. Can you attach an emerge info? And report what
window manager / sound daemon you have?

[Comment 3 Rico Poser 2005-09-26 09:43:20 UTC]

I use KDE 3.4.1 and the ALSA sound daemon compiled in the
gentoo-kernel-2.6.12-r10. Since Skype cannot use ALSA at the moment, I think I
use a compatibility option in the kernel, too. By the way, I think I had the
same problem with a Debian system before. Therefore I am quite sure that it is a
Skype bug, which fortunately can be solved easily by creating the mentioned
symlink. Here is the "emerge info":

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8"
LINGUAS="de en ja"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdr cjk
crypt cups curl dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif fam ffmpeg foomaticdb
fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq ieee1394 imagemagick imlib
immqt-bc ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww
lm_sensors m17n-lib mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl spell
ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb
userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_de linguas_en
linguas_ja userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 4 Rico Poser 2005-09-26 09:49:41 UTC]

I found this in ~\skype.log:

=====  Thu Sep 22 20:59:35 CEST 2005  =====
Starting artsd wrapped skype
MALLOC_CHECK_=0 artsdsp -m /opt/skype/skype.bin --resources-path /opt/skype/
/usr/bin/skype: line 52: MALLOC_CHECK_=0: command not found
/dev/dsp-1: Device or resource busy
/dev/dsp-1: Device or resource busy

[Comment 5 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) 2006-07-02 16:11:41 UTC]

Please try 1.3 and report back

[Comment 6 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) 2006-10-02 18:56:02 UTC]

no report in several months. Assuming it is fixed.