From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 9 14:50:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5087016A492 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3572043DBE for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:50:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 16977 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2006 01:50:14 +1100 Received: from 210-84-39-203.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.39.203) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Nov 2006 01:50:14 +1100 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:50:11 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: Stefan Lambrev Message-ID: <20061110015011.16e39b70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4552E948.9020709@sun-fish.com> References: <45524F6C.1020708@comcast.net> <4552E948.9020709@sun-fish.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rem P Roberti , multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Starting Skype X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:50:28 -0000 On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:39:36 +0200 Stefan Lambrev wrote: > Are you using FreeBSD 6.2-prerelease i386 ? because I have similar problems. > When I start skype as user (never tried with superuser) it cannot > connect, and while trying > to do so, it fuck up the whole network. Also when this happened skype > cannot be killed with -9 even. I've got skype running since... 6.0 pretty much... no problems at all, ever. always running as normal user. Does your user have access to the sound devices? Now i'm up to RELENG kernel+world of early this week > > I tried to find something with ktrace, but I really do not understand > very much what's going on. > I notice that skype goes mad and calls a lot gethostbyname(). > > Well skype is binary (for linux) without debug symbols in it so I guess > it is almost impossible to know what happens, > and may be those complains have to be sent to skype.com ? :) if you run as root, do you get that "many" gethostbyname calls? what is it trying to find? ( wireshark may help you) _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. " Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.