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dynamic skype from SBo aborts

Hi folks,

I was just wondering if I could get some assistance with this. Basically skype doesn't seem to want to run. It was working just fine yesterday and even though I am tracking -current, the last updates were Apr. 11, so I don't think they're the reason behind this.

Basically, here is the error:

Code:

$ skype

Fatal: QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QPaintDevice

Aborted

I've googled this already and two results popped up. One about the program prelink which I don't have installed, and the other is about not having all compat32 packages installed that the skype binary requires.

I double checked that I had the compat32 packages by:

1. Re-installing all the compat32 packages after re-downloading them.

2. I re-checked to make sure each shared object that skype links against actually existed on my system (and they do).

I'm at a loss on what the problem might be. I haven't removed a package recently or upgraded anything other than the updates from Apr. 11th. and the multilib stuff.

Does anybody hopefully have any ideas on what might be going on?

look at the output from ldd /usr/bin/skype |grep found

What you get is missing libraries. It should say nothing. install what it mentions. Then run skype from a terminal and post what it says.

The output of ldd is what I used to double-check that I already had all the shared objects as previously stated.

From memory, there may have been a symlink I added in the compat32 stuff.
/lib/ld-linux.so2-->ld-2.15.so ??

That particular one throws crazy errors when it shows - the last thing it complains about is a missing lib.

I'm on -current, so for me it's 2.17 but yes /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is a symlink to /lib/ld-2.17.so

I'm running dynamic skype here (not very often, I hasten to add) and I stuck the output of ldd up HEREif it helps.

Like I said, I've already used ldd myself and as previously stated in my first post, I have already looked up the shared objects to make sure the compat32 ones exist...

I've identified the error. For some reason I had uncommented the stripping part of skype. I didn't think that was the problem because the .SlackBuild mentions a segmentation fault but I guess that error message counts. :)

If the slackbuild mentioned a segmentation fault, that info should have been in post #1 and we would have got to this a biot sooner, I'm sure.