Skype crashing on startup

apk5 · 2011-02-16 12:30:22

So i was trying to get the microphone issue with skype sorted out. messed about with the mixer levels a great deal to no effect. And anyway, not working (i did something with pulseaudio in ubuntu before, some bizarre wee kludge that definitely didn't like it should work)

that's a seperate issue though. Now it just won't start up at all. I just put the settings back to normal and it was crashing out before it got a chance to login or anything.

I removed it and reinstalled and still the same issue.

This is the output from terminal after crashing out

andrew@shinybox:~$ skype
skype: pcm_null.c:130: snd_pcm_null_start: Assertion `null->state == SND_PCM_STATE_PREPARED' failed.
Segmentation fault

is this something to do with skype's great love of automatically adjusting the mixer settings? cos it wasn't giving me this last night

slowdriver · 2011-02-28 09:32:14

Hi apk5,
did you fix the issue already?

If not, please provide more information, e.g.:
Which #!-release / Kernel do you use?
32bit / 64bit ?
From where did you install which skype-package?
etc.
Did you delete the /home/USER/.Skype configuration file bevor you re-installed Skype?

My experience with a fresh installed #!-Statler 32bit and download the Debian packages from the Skape website is: works ootb. No hassle with any settings anymore.

Good luck!

Last edited by slowdriver (2011-02-28 11:53:39)

SHTFMRadio.com · 2011-04-04 03:03:40

See if this helps you

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … huts-down/

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#1 2011-02-16 12:30:22

Skype crashing on startup

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Re: Skype crashing on startup

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Re: Skype crashing on startup

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