Skype core dumps as normal user

[Roman Divacky]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:47:16PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > On Monday 17 March 2008, Gary Stanley said:
> > > At 02:53 PM 3/17/2008, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > > >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/glib
> > >c-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"
> > 
> > Thank you, that fixed the problem :-)
> 
> Sorry for hijacking this thread, but do you know if it fixes Flash 9 as
> well? :)

a side note.... I got really excited by dtrace today. I guess that when
dtrace import happens in fbsd (a week from now? :)) I'll try to see
why flash9 fails on fbsd using that.

I cant and wont promise anything but.. things might moev

in the meantime.. please use gnash or (preferably) swfdec for your flash
needs

roman