From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 09:05:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 E602316A401 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 09:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: from mail.bitdefender.com (ns.bitdefender.com [217.156.83.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AE543D46 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 09:05:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: (qmail 11104 invoked by uid 1010); 17 May 2006 12:05:09 +0300 Received: from apircalabu.dsd.ro (10.10.15.22) by mail.bitdefender.com with SMTP; 17 May 2006 12:05:09 +0300 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:05:09 +0300 From: Adi Pircalabu To: Stephen Bartlett Message-ID: <20060517120509.54d98132@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <20060517084742.GA957@tux.localdomain.local> References: <446A680C.2060908@greenmeadow.ca> <20060517124624.533537e0@localhost> <446A9D70.5070405@greenmeadow.ca> <20060517140933.4def3cbb@localhost> <20060517103656.3f267326@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20060517084742.GA957@tux.localdomain.local> Organization: BitDefender X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: 1.1.4 049000040111AAAAAAE X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender Qmail 1.6.2 on mail.bitdefender.com X-BitDefender-Spam: No (0) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:05:14 -0000 On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:47:42 -1000 Stephen Bartlett wrote: > > linux_enable="YES" > > should be enough. > > FWIW, I had had Skype running fine on 6.0-RELEASE -- then it stopped > working for some unknown reason. Symptoms were that the Skype > process would start, fire up some child processes, but never bring up > any windows. > > I upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, did a portupgrade, and still had the same > problem with Skype. After reading that other people still were able > to run Skype, I decided to start all over with it: deinstalled > net/skype, deinstalled the emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3 that I'd > been using, and 'rm -rf /compat/linux/*'. Then, I just: > > cd /usr/ports/net/skype > make install > (that ended up installing linux_base-8) Yep, but you've probably been left with outdated libraries. Try to use portupgrade or portmanager, they both do a very good job in updating dependencies. > > Although the build/install went fine, Skype wouldn't start due to > missing libraries. So I copied them over from a Linux partition > (happens to be Gentoo): libGL.so.1 libXmu.so.6 > libXrandr.so.2 > libXcursor.so.1 > libXft.so.2 > libSM.so.6 > libICE.so.6 > libXext.so.6 > libX11.so.6 > libXxf86vm.so.1 > libXt.so.6 > libXrender.so.1 > libexpat.so.0 > Mine works ok, 6.1-STABLE as of yesterday. I think your system misses some updated linux-\* ports: pkg_glob -R skype linux_dri-4.4.0 linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4 linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 linux_base-8-8.0_14 linux-expat-1.95.7_1 skype-1.2.0.18 Do you have latest versions of the above installed? -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/