[Solved - but dont know why] Skype is not behaving well for me - help please

[broadstairs]

I decided to try Skype as that is what the rest of my family currently use. I installed it from the repository but found that it will not run reliably. I have searched around the forum and tried just about everything suggested from deleting he whole .skype directory to just renaming the shared.xml file and restarting. I have Skype access turned off as well. I can start it and login OK sometimes and it will sit there and suddenly exit and other times it will just close before I can login, no error messages at all. If I run it from a terminal window it will say Aborted when it exits that's all.

I just ran a test and it stayed up for some minutes and made a test call OK but then after that finished it just exited again. This is the main problem the fact that it just aborts for no obvious reason. Can anyone suggest where to go from here? The system is fully up to date as I check for updates several times a week.

Stuart

[Just17]

I would suggest trying it from another user account .....  maybe create a test user and try running it from there for a while to see if it still misbehaves.

regards

[broadstairs]

Well so far tonight it hs now been up for some 5 hours without crashing. The only thing I have changed on the system was to install jisi and linphone which updated/installed some other packages as well and now today it is working. If it still is behaving OK in a day or so I'll mark this as solved.

Stuart

[Just17]

Well so far tonight it hs now been up for some 5 hours without crashing. The only thing I have changed on the system was to install jisi and linphone which updated/installed some other packages as well and now today it is working. If it still is behaving OK in a day or so I'll mark this as solved.

Stuart

If there were packages updated it would make me wonder why they had not previously been updated .......  newly installed is understandable .....  but updated?

[djohnston]

Well so far tonight it hs now been up for some 5 hours without crashing. The only thing I have changed on the system was to install jisi and linphone which updated/installed some other packages as well and now today it is working. If it still is behaving OK in a day or so I'll mark this as solved.

Stuart

If there were packages updated it would make me wonder why they had not previously been updated .......  newly installed is understandable .....  but updated?

+1

broadstairs,

You should always do your updates before installing any new packages.

[broadstairs]

Well I have no idea why its working now but it has been behaving OK. What actually happened (now I have double checked the history) was that I did a reload and 3 vim packages needed updating, so along with this I installed jitsi and linphone whicch in turn added a bunch of stuff related to these two packages. Dont see why I needed to update 3 vim package in a separate run, if it had been updating loads of stuff in the system I would have run the update first.

The webcam still seems a bit flaky but I can liove with that for now. At least it's not crashing anymore.

Stuart

[scoundrel]

friend has this problem on his lappy .. needs to start it a few times for it to stick ??

[vergnano]

I have same problem as scoundrel says: I have to start Skype many times for it to stay running.
Tried all solutions I read about, but nothing worked fo me yet. Does anyone have an idea of what can I do?

Thanks for help

[melodie]

Hi,
You can start it from a console, and look at the output after it crashed. This might bring a clue.

Regards,
Mélodie

[vergnano]

It just says Aborted. Not much for a clue.

UPDATE: I might found a solution, but I'm not sure yet. I modified the shortcut properties and specified a working directory /home/user/tmp. I started Skype as usual and it stays running the first time. However I need to check it few more times to be sure that it is reliable.

[demilord]

friend has this problem on his lappy .. needs to start it a few times for it to stick ??

Same happens for me

[vergnano]

I'm back again: what I did seemed to solve my issue but only for few times. Now it's happening again - I have to start skype few times before it stays running.

Anyone has any ideas?

[melodie]

I'm back again: what I did seemed to solve my issue but only for few times. Now it's happening again - I have to start skype few times before it stays running.

Anyone has any ideas?

Hi,
You can start it from a console, and look at the output after it crashed. This might bring a clue.

Regards,
Mélodie

[vergnano]

@melodie: please read before writing...

It just says Aborted. Not much for a clue.

[melodie]

@melodie: please read before writing...

It just says Aborted. Not much for a clue.

Sorry, you didn't quote and I missed it. There is a user in the French section who complained he does not get sound. This program provides quite different errors I see. I think he also uses KDE.