Il 21/04/2012 19:38, Carl Hartung ha scritto:

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:34:57 -0300 Marco Calistri wrote:

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Hello openSUSers,

I know, I should be opening a bug on bugzilla but I am in hurry so hope that ALSA/openSUSE people could take in account of this brief report.

It occurs that by starting SKYPE version 2.2.0.35-suse111, my Core i5 laptop freezes and keeps unresponsive for a couple of minutes.

So far I was not understanding the reason of this problem but today I switched /var/log/messages immediately before to start Skype and I recorded the error Log in the annex.

It appears an error of compilation of Skype's code as well as ALSA related issue.

There are newer or patched versions of Skype for Linux around?

Thanks.

Cheers,

Hi Marco,

I'm on openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 GNOME 2. Skype does this on my Core2Duo system, too, roughly one in three or four launches. It behaves like an 'on-launch / at initialization race condition' where the indicator on my panel shows one core pegged and X becomeing only haltingly responsive until the process dies (or is killed off.) After the crash, I usually need to log out and back into my desktop to get X responding normally again.

rpm -qa | grep skype skype-2.2.0.35-suse111.i586

uname -a 2.6.37.6-0.11-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-12-19 23:39:38 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss 53391 0 snd_mixer_oss 20225 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq 66675 0 snd_seq_device 7770 1 snd_seq snd_hda_codec_hdmi 28023 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek 356587 1 snd_hda_intel 28773 2 snd_hda_codec 108050 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 7772 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 104468 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 26774 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 84374 15 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8782 1 snd snd_page_alloc 9569 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

cat /var/log/messages | grep skype kernel: [ 206.232740] process `skype' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT

regards,

Carl

Hi Carl, Thanks for your feedback, really SKYPE is not updated for Linux and now that Microsoft purchased the P2P company I suppose it will never get upgraded for Linux. Hope that one day they decide to offer an "open-source" version so that we could use for our systems. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.1 (Aspargus) - Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop x86_64 Gnome 3.2.1 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:24:00 +0200 JC Francois wrote:

On 21/04/12 17:34, Marco Calistri wrote:

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Hello openSUSers,

I know, I should be opening a bug on bugzilla but I am in hurry so hope that ALSA/openSUSE people could take in account of this brief report.

It occurs that by starting SKYPE version 2.2.0.35-suse111, my Core i5 laptop freezes and keeps unresponsive for a couple of minutes.

So far I was not understanding the reason of this problem but today I switched /var/log/messages immediately before to start Skype and I recorded the error Log in the annex.

It appears an error of compilation of Skype's code as well as ALSA related issue.

There are newer or patched versions of Skype for Linux around?

Thanks.

Cheers,

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?

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Skype

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. 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. BTW, Skype has run for me nearly flawlessly on SuSE / SUSE / openSUSE since at least 8.x -- even on this hardware, up until fairly recently. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 14:34, Carl Hartung wrote:

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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?

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Skype

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... 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. Thus, the list of additional 32 bit libraries that must be installed as detailed on the SDB page. 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

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. 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/... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:02, Carl Hartung wrote:

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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.

Yes, that is what I was referring to.. installing the 32 Skype on a 64 bit system which in my experience is where the first of many issues with Skype start to pop up.

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.

Try it on a 64 bit system. It will install without a peep on a 64 bit system. If you've got a default openSUSE 64 bit system, and you install Skype, it will install cleanly using YaST, zypper in, or rpm -ivh without any complaints - it will fail to launch though due to missing 32-bit libs... at least xorg-x11-libXv-32bit, libqt4-32bit, libqt4-x11-32bit, and libpng12-0-32bit (as noted in the SDB entry). You must manually install these libs... installing just the Skype RPM using the usual tools in openSUSE will not raise the flag that bits are missing and Skype will fail to launch. This issue isn't likely to be the OP's problem, but worth clarifying. C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.8.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:49:56 -0300 Marco Calistri wrote:

Il 23/04/2012 04:24, JC Francois ha scritto:

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On 21/04/12 17:34, Marco Calistri wrote:

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Hello openSUSers,

I know, I should be opening a bug on bugzilla but I am in hurry so hope that ALSA/openSUSE people could take in account of this brief report.

It occurs that by starting SKYPE version 2.2.0.35-suse111, my Core i5 laptop freezes and keeps unresponsive for a couple of minutes.

So far I was not understanding the reason of this problem but today I switched /var/log/messages immediately before to start Skype and I recorded the error Log in the annex.

It appears an error of compilation of Skype's code as well as ALSA related issue.

There are newer or patched versions of Skype for Linux around?

Thanks.

Cheers,

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?

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Skype

JC

Hi JC,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, I have all the dependencies installed but this does not solves.

Freezing happens only at first launch of SKYPE, then it crashes and closes.

At second launch, it works correctly.

Regards,

I've compared my system to the prerequisites listed at the SDB:Skype for 11.4. The verbiage there is a little confusing. I wasn't missing any packages, but it took some sleuthing to figure that out: = 64-bit =============================================== not listed libasound2-1.0.24.1-4.9.1.x86_64 libpng12-0 libpng12-0-1.2.49-16.1.x86_64 libqt4 libqt4-4.7.1-8.17.1.x86_64 libqt4-x11 libqt4-x11-4.7.1-8.17.1.x86_64 libqt4-dbus-1 --> libqt4 provides libqt4-dbus-1 libsigc++2(*) libsigc-2_0-0-2.2.8-3.1.x86_64 not listed xorg-x11-libs-7.6-17.18.1.x86_64 not listed xorg-x11-libXv-7.6-6.1.x86_64 = 32-bit ===================================================== libasound2-32bit libasound2-32bit-1.0.24.1-4.9.1.x86_64 libpng12-0-32bit libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.49-16.1.x86_64 not listed libqt4-32bit-4.7.1-8.17.1.x86_64 libqt4-x11-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit-4.7.1-8.17.1.x86_64 --> libqt4 provides libqt4-dbus-1 not listed(*) libsigc-2_0-0-32bit-2.2.8-3.1.x86_64 xorg-x11-libXv-32bit xorg-x11-libXv-32bit-7.6-6.1.x86_64 xorg-x11-libs-32bit xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.6-17.18.1.x86_64 (*) The package name is "libsigc", not "libsigc++2" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org