Seems like the new version of skype runs only under root account; if used under normal user account it freezes trying to make a call. Googling around and on skype forum seems like this is a common gentoo issue, while other distro are ok. I noticed this warning while emerging it: QA Notice: the following files contain executable stacks Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!) on some architectures/operating systems. A bug should be filed at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed. For more information, see http://hardened.gentoo.org/gnu-stack.xml Please include this file in your report: /var/tmp/portage/skype-1.3.0.30-r1/temp/scanelf-execstack.log "--- --- RWX opt/skype/skype" I think this may be the case, anyway I already noticed this to skype people to see what they think about it. ------------ Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -ffast-math -funroll-all-loops -funit-at-a-time -fpeel-loops -ftracer -funswitch-loops" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /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/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -ffast-math -funroll-all-loops -funit-at-a-time -fpeel-loops -ftracer -funswitch-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa apm auctex avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups divx4linux dlloader doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode fbcon foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls opengl pam pam_console pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l videos xinerama xorg xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
We definitely can't fix the executable stacks, go ask upstream to do it. I really doubt it has anything to do w/ that, but rather could be caused by broken sound device permissions on your system.
Can you please give more details? And links to those places (attention that skype 1.2 and 1.3 are very diferent in sound access). Also you configured skype to use alsa or oss?
configured to use alsa did a lot of stracing, fixed all EACCs checked limits compared all I can find with a functional ubuntu installation have no clue where to dig #groups tty wheel audio cdrom video games users portage vmware crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 0 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 32 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/controlC1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 18 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/pcmC0D2p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 56 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 48 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jul 21 20:08 /dev/snd/timer grep dev/snd trace|grep -v E 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 26 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 26 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 26 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 26 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 26 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 26 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 27 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 27 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 27 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC1", O_RDONLY) = 27 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC1", O_RDONLY) = 27 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC1", O_RDWR) = 27 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC27", O_RDONLY <unfinished ...> 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 25 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 25 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 25 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 25 9504 open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 27 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 25 9504 open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 25 doesn't really seem to be sound related, or more specific "alsa related"
Cant duplicate this.
