Re: [opensuse] Re: Skype/Alsa Error

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 14:34, Carl Hartung <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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/222/highlight/true

C.
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