[gentoo-user] Skypeforlinux does not start

[gentoo-user] Skypeforlinux does not start

[gevisz]

I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.

After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
I even do not get "permission denied" message.

# whereis skypeforlinux
skypeforlinux: /usr/bin/skypeforlinux

# ls -al /usr/bin/skypeforlinux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 4 /usr/bin/skypeforlinux ->
/../../opt/bin/skypeforlinux

/opt/bin/skypeforlinux is a shell script calling
/opt/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux

$ /opt/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux
Server response: <?xml version="1.0"  encoding="UTF-8"
Segmentation fault

What I am doing wrong? Except for trying to install skypeforlinux, of course. :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start

[Holger Hoffstätte]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote:

> I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.
> 
> After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
> I even do not get "permission denied" message.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396

For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just emerge it
and it should work; it did for me.

-h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start

[gevisz]

чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:16, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>:
>
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote:
>
> > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.
> >
> > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
> > I even do not get "permission denied" message.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396
>
> For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just emerge it
> and it should work; it did for me.

It has worked for me. Thank you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start

[Mick]

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On Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:40:57 BST gevisz wrote:
> чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:16, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-
asynchrony.com>:
> > On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote:
> > > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.
> > > 
> > > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
> > > I even do not get "permission denied" message.
> > 
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396
> > 
> > For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just emerge it
> > and it should work; it did for me.
> 
> It has worked for me. Thank you.

I've had the same symptom and I also do not have elogind installed.  If 
elogind is necessary, shouldn't it be specified in the ebuild as a dependency?  

Since I'm running console-kit, but not elogind, or systemd, couldn't skype be 
made to work with that instead?

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start

[gevisz]

пт, 5 окт. 2018 г. в 13:25, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
>
> On Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:40:57 BST gevisz wrote:
> > чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:16, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-
> asynchrony.com>:
> > > On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote:
> > > > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.
> > > >
> > > > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
> > > > I even do not get "permission denied" message.
> > >
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396
> > >
> > > For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just emerge it
> > > and it should work; it did for me.
> >
> > It has worked for me. Thank you.
>
> I've had the same symptom and I also do not have elogind installed.  If
> elogind is necessary, shouldn't it be specified in the ebuild as a dependency?

It exactly what the bug report mensioned above state.

> Since I'm running console-kit, but not elogind, or systemd, couldn't skype be
> made to work with that instead?

You should ask Microsoft about it. :)

Version 8.29.50 of skypeforlinux still works without elogind,
so you may chose to downgrade to it.