On Skype 4.1 under Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 I received this today:
Segmentation Fault (Core Dumped)
Not the best thing when you need to get on Skype for work. It seems to be something introduced since an update to libqtwebkit version 2.3.0. If you can, downgrade to a previous version to fix the issue. If not, a work around is to use the MESA driver on the command line as so:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 skype
This will launch Skype and bypass the seg fault.
Hi!
What the hell is going on here? oO Does the qtwebkit 2.3 version depend upon new symbols of libmesa? Can you explain what is wrong here?
Still thanks very much!
I’m not actually sure what causes the issue. All I know is the package that upgraded was qtwebkit and bang, it went to sh!t. There’s a lot of posts in launchpad about the bugs and killing Skype is a serious issue for a lot of people these days. Most people said to force downgrade qtwebkit to cure the problem but just launching with using libmesa bypasses the issue. I use NVidia so I’m guessing it’s something between the QTWebkit and NVidia driver that causes the segfault, but by using yee old libmesa it waltzes past it.
Thanks, saved me a lot of time!!
Thanks !
Thanks man. You are awesome.
Good job!
I was panicked that I cannot use skype anymore.
Thank you!
Thanks!
Thanks a lot.
Thanks a ton for the workaround. You saved me. I had a call I nneded to get too really bad. Thought I was in a lot of trouble. Your workaround was great. I owe you a beer, or pepsi, whatever your poison.
Coffee most of the time. Feel free to donate one 🙂
Thank you!!!
Great! you saved my day 🙂
Thank you very much! This is a good sollution.
it works thank a lot…
Man its mesa drivers i believe… by running sudo apt-get install libegl1* (when i ran apt-cache search mesa i got tons of libegl1 results) it got FIXED!!!
So It was mesa after all 🙂
Thanks, that worked!
Thanks !!!
After todays skype update – it’s finally working. no need to use this tricks.
Thanks a lot!