Skype core dumps as normal user

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsd.org> (from Sun, 16 Mar 2008  
23:11:21 -0800):

> I've run into a problem starting skype as a normal user:
>
> $ skype --resources=/usr/local/share/skype
> *** glibc detected *** skype: double free or corruption (!prev):
> 0x092ad7f0 ***

I remember some error reports like this (with other programs). The  
outcome was either that we are not able to find the cause, or that the  
glibc version used is broken (and a newer one fixes the problem). I  
don't remember which of those it was. Which linux base are you using?  
If it is fc4, please try with a more recent one. If it is not fc4,  
please try with fc4.

If the problems occurs with both, it would be interesting to know what  
is happening (this would involve building skype, fontconfig and/or  
glibc with debug symbols).

Bye,
Alexander.

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