Starting Skype

[Stefan Lambrev]

Sorry I was away from the pc that have this problem but I'll test ASAP,
and let you know.

It is weird because on the same configuration, but amd64 it works perfect.

I posted once before on stable at freebsd so here is brief of ktrace (but 
only from the main skype proc)

4306 skype_bin RET   getdomainname 0
 4306 skype_bin CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfd540,0)
 4306 skype_bin RET   getdomainname 0
 4306 skype_bin CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfd540,0)
 4306 skype_bin RET   getdomainname 0
 4306 skype_bin CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfd540,0)
 4306 skype_bin RET   getdomainname 0
 4306 skype_bin CALL  getdomainname(0xbfbfd540,0)

and this is after kill -9 :)

4305  p3  IN     0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/skype
4306  p3  DE     0:02.43 skype_bin
4332  p3  D      0:00.11 skype_bin
4342  p3  D      0:00.00 skype_bin

I guess that there is no problem with accessing sound as normal user,
and the problem shouldn't be in linux emu, because linux-doom3 runs 
perfect with the same user :)

Here is a ktrace.out made before 1-2 weeks:

http://cheffo.freebsd-bg.org/ktrace.out.bz2

The problem start after upgrading freebsd to latest (at this time) 
RELENG_6, and skype was working before
so I do not think my /etc/hosts is the problem here :)


Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:39:36 +0200
> Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev at sun-fish.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Are you using FreeBSD 6.2-prerelease i386 ? because I have similar
>> problems. When I start skype as user (never tried with superuser) it
>> cannot connect, and while trying
>> to do so, it fuck up the whole network. Also when this happened skype 
>> cannot be killed with -9 even.
>>
>> I tried to find something with ktrace, but I really do not understand 
>> very much what's going on.
>> I notice that skype goes mad and calls a lot gethostbyname().
>>     
>
> Please post the ktrace / truss output somewhere. Does your host name
> resolve ? /etc/hosts ?
>
>
>   
>> Well skype is binary (for linux) without debug symbols in it so I
>> guess it is almost impossible to know what happens,
>>     
>
> Indeed it's very frustrating.
>
>   
>> and may be those complains have to be sent to skype.com ? :)
>>     
>
> Maybe.
>
>   

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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
ICQ# 24134177