When starting skype, skype crashed repeatedly for a dozen times before it's opened and stick there. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install skype [ebuild R ~] net-im/skype-2.2.0.35-r1 USE="-qt-static" 22,539 kB 2. Open Skype 3. Actual Results: Skype crashes on startup repeatedly. After retrying a dozen times or so, Skype finally started and stick there. Expected Results: Skype starts without crashing repeatedly. Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.0.6-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.6-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T5600_@_1.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_CN" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gpg gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lcms ldap libnotify mad mbox mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pda pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds pppd qt qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session spell ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l2 vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xorg-x11 xprint xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_CN" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 arm x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 arm x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nouveau nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Do you have crash logs, system log output, dmesg info related to these crashes? Did you test with USE=qt-static yet?
Also check out: * bug #363655 - net-im/skype-2.2.0.25 crashes randomly * bug #382053 - net-im/skype-2.2.0.35-r1 using all system memory on startup before you reopen this bug report (and when enough information has been added).
Building with "qt-static" seems to make the crash on start problem went away.
Created attachment 314645 [details] strace of skype execution when compiled with -qt-static
(In reply to comment #3) > Building with "qt-static" seems to make the crash on start problem went away. I see the same in my amd64 system: $ skype ./skype: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib32/qt4/libQtNetwork.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN16QIODevicePrivate13putCharHelperEc this is when compiled with -qt-static All app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* are installed in the 20120520 version.
