When I start skype, it display the window, and just hang, "strace -p `pidof skype`" gives: futex(0x89bb358, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL Tried both with and without static use flag, neither work. Question for the maintainer: Why did you remove skype-1.3.0.30-r1.ebuild? It was quite anonoying for me to go back to that version, I had to rename skype-1.3.0.37.ebuild and copy it on my local overlay to get skype working again (skype-1.2 doesn't work for me (no ALSA))... emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1_pre5-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18-rc4-mactel i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-rc4-mactel i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -Os -pipe -msse -msse2 -msse3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" LINGUAS="fr en zh" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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 /usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl /usr/portage/local/layman/java-migration-packages" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa amr avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo crypt cups dbus dlloader dri elibc_glibc encode exif firefox gdbm gif glitz gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics jpeg kernel_linux kqemu libwww linguas_en linguas_fr linguas_zh mad madwifi matroska mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png python quicktime readline real samba sdl session speex spell sse sse2 ssl stream svg tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l2 video_cards_fbdev video_cards_fglrx video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x264 xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Reply to user: I removed it because it is a BETA version, and a newer BETA was available. User are always free to use the public CVS to retriev older versions of ebuilds. One must remenber at ALL TIMES that skype is non free, closed source beta code. If it does not work for you and it is a gentoo issue then OK report here. The present case seems a upstream issue.
Also, some googling reveals that this is really not a gentoo issue as it happens in debian also: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=61769&view=findpost&p=289272
Ok I know that you can't do anything to fix the problem... In fact, I didn't express that very well in my report, but my main point was that I think it would be a good idea to keep the old version, even if it is a beta, as it is working fine, so if other people have the same problem as me (and I'm almost sure other people will have the same problem), they could simply mask 1.3.0.37, and stick with 1.3.0.30, without having to copy the ebuild or fetch it from the CVS (which is rather time-consuming, especially when you don't do that every day)...
