Skype 4 Error Message
I followed the Skype installation steps for Fedora 20 on if-not-true-then-false closely but I keep getting an error message. When I use the skype command from the command line I get the following error:
/usr/bin/skype: line 4: 27604 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*
strace results in the output below:
execve("/usr/bin/skype", ["/usr/bin/skype"], [/* 28 vars /]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x240e000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f79e6bdc000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=113548, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 113548, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f79e6bb8000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib64/libtinfo.so.5", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0@\316\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=173064, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2268928, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f79e6788000
mprotect(0x7f79e67ad000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f79e69ad000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x25000) = 0x7f79e69ad000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib64/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\320\16\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=19512, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2109744, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f79e6580000
mprotect(0x7f79e6583000, 2093056, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f79e6782000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x2000) = 0x7f79e6782000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0p\36\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2097264, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f79e6bdb000
mmap(NULL, 3924576, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f79e61c0000
mprotect(0x7f79e6374000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f79e6574000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1b4000) = 0x7f79e6574000
mmap(0x7f79e657a000, 16992, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f79e657a000
close(3) = 0
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f79e6bd5000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f79e6bd5740) = 0
mprotect(0x7f79e6574000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f79e6782000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f79e69ad000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x6dc000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x7f79e6bd7000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7f79e6bb8000, 113548) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 3
close(3) = 0
brk(0) = 0x240e000
brk(0x242f000) = 0x242f000
brk(0) = 0x242f000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=106070960, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 106070960, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f79dfc90000
close(3) = 0
brk(0) = 0x242f000
getuid() = 0
getgid() = 0
geteuid() = 0
getegid() = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f79e6bda000 ...
It is an 32-bit or 64-bit environment?
same error, different trace, on a 64 bit environment