Hi JC & C, Responses interspersed ... On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:38:10 +0200 JC Francois <jc.francois@gmail.com> wrote:
I am not infering anything. I am just sharing a useful resource to help solve a problem. If you don't like that, just ignore my message.
Sorry for trying to help.
Sorry, I may have taken your opening line the wrong way. I've always operated under the presumption that rpms, by design, declare their 'provides' and 'requires'. I basically interpreted what you wrote as saying 'It works fine here, what's your problem? ... your system must be inconsistent.' This, as you probably know, doesn't happen if you know what you're doing -- so I was a little offended. Now I'm not, so thanks for the link! :-) On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:55:47 +0200 C <smaug42@opensuse.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 14:34, Carl Hartung <opensuse@cehartung.com> wrote:
I have run Skype on 11.4 and 12.1 forever without problem. Maybe you could check the following page and make sure that you have all the right libraries installed?
Um... PEBKAC? That's always possible I guess. First, some questions and comments for you:
If you know for a fact there's a problem with the packaging, i.e. not pulling in dependencies properly, please just say that and don't infer that people experiencing this problem don't know how to keep their (rpm based) systems consistent.
It is fairly well known that the Skype RPM package for 64 bit simply does not work on install... there is a problem with the packaging...
There is no 64-bit Skype package. It's a 32-bit application, so only 32-bit rpms have ever been available. What you're alluding to is the fact that it depends on the 32-bit 'compatibility mode' libraries to be installed, which I already knew.
it does not pull in all the required 32 bit libraries when you install on a 64 bit system. It's left up to the user to launch Skype from the CLI and guess what 4 or 5 of 32 bit packages are missing... and the manually install them.
A first pass like this should avoid any guesswork by listing any missing dependencies: # rpm -Uhv skype-2.2.0.35-suse111.i586.rpm --test Are you saying the package doesn't declare it's dependencies? This *would* be news to me.
That said, i don't think that's the issue here since Skype is launching and working up to the point it crashes or locks the computer for the OP
Most likely correct, but I'll double-check the SDB just in case.
I've had to make subtle tweaks to my *nix installations due to poorly behaving modules and firmware before. It is much more likely that our 'flavor' of hardware has exposed a new or latent bug with a recent update.
Skype has been getting "worse" with newer versions of openSUSE. With the current Skype release on openSUSE 12.1 is periodically stops responding (but it appears to be working normally). It drives one of my CPU cores to 100% and becomes unresponsive (not sending/receiving messages or calls) until I kill the app and restart it. This may be related to the OPs problem.. or it may not.. but Skype is starting to exhibit issues that I've never seen before with older openSUSE (and other distros) releases.
The first time Skype exhibited a race condition and segfault on this system was after I applied some updates during the last year (11.4)
This has been reported upstream: https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCL-670 and https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCL-753
It may also be the problem reported here: http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-eats-all-system-memory-Linux/td-p/...
Thanks for the notes C & JC Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org