Skype core dumps as normal user

[Boris Samorodov]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:11:21 -0800 Beech Rintoul wrote:

> 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 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0x295c3f64]
> /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x295c7630]
> /lib/libc.so.6(closedir+0x28)[0x295e8308]
> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcDirScan+0x1f2)[0x2931321d]
> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcConfigBuildFonts+0x94)[0x2930dd51]
> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcInitLoadConfigAndFonts+0x26)[0x293150b3]
> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcInit+0x2e)[0x293152b0]
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> Does anyone have any ideas on where to go with this, or should I kick 
> it upstream?

Looks like http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117010 .


WBR, bsam
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