Bug 183582 – net-im/skype-1.4.0.74-r2 does not start correctly

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Miroslav Šulc 2007-06-29 00:19:54 UTC]

After I updated world yesterday and restarted my computer, I am not able to start skype correctly. It starts, displays auto-signing information and then just empty skype window displays and skype seems to be freezed.

Here is the list of apps I updated before:
     Thu Jun 28 08:57:27 2007 >>> media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.14
     Thu Jun 28 08:59:41 2007 >>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1
     Thu Jun 28 09:00:25 2007 >>> sys-fs/udev-113
     Thu Jun 28 09:02:12 2007 >>> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14a
     Thu Jun 28 09:04:47 2007 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.16.4
     Thu Jun 28 09:05:39 2007 >>> media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.14
     Thu Jun 28 09:09:17 2007 >>> app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.17
     Thu Jun 28 09:09:40 2007 >>> media-video/ffmpegthumbnailer-1.1.2
     Thu Jun 28 09:12:28 2007 >>> x11-libs/vte-0.16.6
     Thu Jun 28 09:14:03 2007 >>> gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor-2.18.2
     Thu Jun 28 09:15:18 2007 >>> gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.18.2
     Thu Jun 28 09:24:43 2007 >>> gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.10.2
     Thu Jun 28 09:27:10 2007 >>> gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.14.2
     Thu Jun 28 11:39:07 2007 >>> mail-client/evolution-2.10.2

I suspected alsa-lib upgrade so I downgraded to media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14_rc3 and started skype again (without restart of system) but the behavior was the same.

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:50:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.9999
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4m -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4m -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig cvs distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-orphans"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.nyx.hu/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/"
LC_ALL="cs_CZ.utf8"
LINGUAS="cs"
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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/voip /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage /home/fordfrog/gentoo/java/jboss-overlay /home/fordfrog/gentoo/java/java-experimental /home/fordfrog/gentoo/java/junkyard /home/fordfrog/gentoo/java/java-overlay /home/fordfrog/gentoo/gentoo-gis/stable /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa arts asf automount berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cpufreq cracklib crypt cups dbus dhcp dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fbsplash ffmpeg firefox fortran gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm grass gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal howl iconv imagemagick ipv6 irda isdnlog jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde kerberos ladcca ldap libg++ libnotify lirc lm_sensors logrotate mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mozdevelop mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap ncurses nls no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl pmu png povray ppds pppd proj python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline real reflection samba scanner sdl seamonkey session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles svg tcpd test tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdr vhosts visualization vorbis widescreen wifi win32codecs wmf x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" DVB_CARDS="usb-a800" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="cs" LIRC_DEVICES="avermedia" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Miroslav Šulc 2007-06-29 00:21:50 UTC]

Created attachment 123348 [details]
screenshot of the skype window

this is the screenshot of the skype window when it freezes

[Comment 2 Miroslav Šulc 2007-06-29 07:48:21 UTC]

Hm, strange, I do not know why, but it started to work today.