Skype core dumps as normal user

[Gary Stanley]

At 02:53 PM 3/17/2008, Beech Rintoul wrote:
>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.

Can you try a newer glibc version with 2.6.16? You can install it like this;

cd /compat/linux && fetch
<ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/development/x86_64/os/Packages/glibc-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm">ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/development/x86_64/os/Packages/glibc-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm"
Then you do a simple "rpm2cpio glibc-2.7.90-7.i386.rpm | cpio -idvu"