Problem with sound device in Skype with Slackware 11

fakie_flip · 10-05-2007, 08:57 AM

I'd like to put a newer version of Skype in Slackware 11.0 for VOIP. The version that I have in Slackware has bugs I think, and I get the message "Problem with sound device." When trying to make a call, others get the message "Problem with remote sound device." I have tried to upgrade Skype, but I get errors.

Code:

slax skype-1.4.0.99 # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/sda1/home/ivan/.32bitLibs:/mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/ LD_PRELOAD=/lib/tls/libc.so.6 ./skype
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libasound.so.2)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/home/ivan/.32bitLibs/libQtDBus.so.4)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/home/ivan/.32bitLibs/libQtGui.so.4)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/home/ivan/.32bitLibs/libQtNetwork.so.4)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/home/ivan/.32bitLibs/libQtCore.so.4)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libX11.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/home/ivan/.32bitLibs/libdbus-1.so.3)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/home/ivan/.32bitLibs/libQtXml.so.4)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libz.so.1)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libgthread-2.0.so.0)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libaudio.so.2)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libXt.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libpng12.so.0)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libSM.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libICE.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libXcursor.so.1)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libXext.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libXau.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6)
./skype: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/libexpat.so.1)
slax skype-1.4.0.99 #

Now I'm getting segmentation fault.

Code:

slax skype-1.4.0.99 # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/sda1/home/chris/.32bitLibs:/mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/ LD_PRELOAD=/mnt/sda1/lib32/libc.so.6 ldd skype | grep -i no
bt skype-1.4.0.99 # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/sda1/home/chris/.32bitLibs:/mnt/sda1/usr/lib32/ LD_PRELOAD=/mnt/sda1/lib32/libc.so.6 strace ./skype
Segmentation fault
slax skype-1.4.0.99 #

I have compiled the latest alsa-driver, alsa-utils, alsa-oss and alsa-libs. I've also tried running skype with aoss.

simcox1 · 10-06-2007, 05:08 AM

You could try downloading it from www.slackbuilds.org . There are two versions there. One for slack 11 and one for 12. It's skype-1.3 because QT4 is needed for later versions.

fakie_flip · 10-06-2007, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simcox1

You could try downloading it from www.slackbuilds.org . There are two versions there. One for slack 11 and one for 12. It's skype-1.3 because QT4 is needed for later versions.

Weird, I found out that the older version of Skype will work without "Problems with sound device" if I run it as root.

psychicist · 10-07-2007, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fakie_flip

Weird, I found out that the older version of Skype will work without "Problems with sound device" if I run it as root.

ALSA support has been rewritten for Skype 1.4 so it should be much more reliable than the hit-and-miss nature of Skype 1.3. The downside to this is that you have to upgrade to Slackware 12.0 because of the dependencies on newer glibc and libstdc++ versions of the binaries.

This wouldn't have been a problem if Skype was open source, it would only take a recompile to get it working on Slackware 11.0. If someone reverse engineered the protocol and wrote a free implementation you wouldn't have to put up with this. You can also try using SIP clients such Linphone and Ekiga, if you don't want to upgrade.