Skype core dumps as normal user

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 17 March 2008, Beech Rintoul said:
> 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.

I was going to say. I'm running fc6 with 2.6.16. I'll ping the Skype 
devs and see if they'll roll me a copy with debugging turned on.

Beech

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