Skype core dumps as normal user

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 17 March 2008, Alexander Leidinger said:
> 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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