Skype crashes on connect attempt?{SOLVED}

67comet · Last edited by 67comet on Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:53 am; edited 1 time in total

*edit* Seems this was an issue that was solved by simple upgrades .. it's working like a champ now. */edit*

I've never played with it much, but the wife is all about it on her machine (XP) right now, so I tossed it on here, and whomp, when I hit the connect button I get:

Pete · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 10

same to me:

pleban123 · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 1

There is a bug in skype. The old glibc treats double free light, allowing programmer to use:

col · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:13 am Post subject:

I tried this buy skype still dies after I try to dial someone :

Pete · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 10

same to me. No success.

col · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

guess we will have to wait for the next version of skype....but I really want to skype and play ET at the same time

... anyone know of any other way to do this ? any other wrappers ?

barry · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 170 Location: UK

It should be MALLOC_CHECK, not MALLOC_CHECK_. Using the first one fixes these crashes - though I still get segmentation faults occasionally.

col · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:10 am Post subject:

now I use the oss emu10k1 driver instead of the alsa one. Now skype works well & I have proper hardware mixing

boris64 · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:19 am Post subject:

hi folks,
same problem here.

none of these "hacks"/fixes seem to work for me.
using the export "MALLOC_CHECK" environment variable
does fix the glibc error, but skype still crashes every time
i try to call someone.
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject:

This seems to be a known bug, yet unresolved: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81255

doublehp · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 473 Location: FRANCE

$ skype
Running artsd found
Starting artsd wrapped skype

then,. as soon as I start a call:

==========================================
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb6208528 ***
/usr/bin/skype: line 50: 11701 Aborted ${skypecmd} ${progopts} >>${logfile} 2>>${logfile}

it works fine with OSS. All other arts apps work fine (gaim, xmms, mplaer )

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] net-im/skype-1.1.0.3 +arts +esd -static 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.8-r1 0 kB
[ebuild R ] media-sound/esound-0.2.34 +alsa +ipv6 +tcpd 0 kB
[ebuild R ] kde-base/arts-3.4.0 +alsa +arts -artswrappersuid -debug +esd -hardened -jack -kdeenablefinal +mad +oggvorbis -xinerama 0 kB
[ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5 -build -debug -erandom -hardened (-multilib) +nls -nomalloccheck +nptl -nptlonly -pic -userlocales 0 kB

what to do ?
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doublehp · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 473 Location: FRANCE

see bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81255
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Macguyvok · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 6:00 am Post subject:

Quick question... a friend of mine was having issues gettin skype to work since it used oss... did you have to do anything special to get it to use the artsd wrapper? I've not messed with it any... just curious.
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Maedhros · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 11:14 am Post subject:

Merged from here to "Skype crashes on connect attempt?"
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doublehp · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 473 Location: FRANCE

xiaokj · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 25

I've got this problem too. even aoss won't work.

However, it seems like, in alsa-oss mode, skype will have some preconfigured volume settings that it will implement on the host computer and will not allow changes. However, this is not within the scope of our discussion.

Can some helpful soul tell skype about it? I suppose that its not that hard to find the double free problem.....

asyr · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 56 Location: Hellas

Hi all.

I have the same problem. I perform a workaround by using the OSS emulation of ALSA (snd_pcm_oss module in my case) and the /opt/skype/skype.bin directly, instead of 'skype', that use the artsdsp wrapper.
Whith this configuration I got sound support (OSS emulation thrue ALSA) on Skype calls, but I do not have the 'gling - gling' notifications on KDE when someone chat me over Skype.
I'm using MALLOC_CHECK_=0 also (for light glibc checking).

Hope this help you, until the bug will fixed.

BloodyNewbie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 88

I'm having the same issue.

This bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81255 still seems unresolved, and this is now half a year old!
Am I missing something or are there not so many peole using gcc3.4 on artsd and skype?

thanks for any hints

best regards
patrick
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Voltago · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject:

This solved my skype crash issues: