Re: status of skype amd64

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Michael <codejodler@gmx.ch> writes:

> Thanks for your suggestions ! 
>
> There seem to be at least 3 versions of debian packages:
>
> skype-debian_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb
> skype_static-2.1.0.81.tar.bz2
> skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb

You want the amd64 package even though that contains the just the 32bit
binary as well. But it depends on ia2-libs and doesn't need
--force-architecture.

> But i could not get any of these working beyond the license agreement resp. login.
>
> I found this hint in the skype packages README:
>
> * On Debian amd64 version Skype crashes on startup with the message: 
>     "Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 623: _dl_open: Assertion 
>     `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!"
>     This seems to be Debian only issue with 32 bit PulseAudio libraries being 
>     installed even if PulseAudio is not active, a workaround can be:
>     - Debian Lenny: 
>       sudo chmod a-r /usr/lib32/libpulse{-simple.so.0.0.1,.so.0.4.1}
>     - Debian Squeeze:
>       sudo chmod a-r /usr/lib32/libpulse{-simple.so.0.0.2,.so.0.8.0,common-0.9.15.so}

Or download the current i386 libpulse deb from debian and unpack it over
ia2-libs. Given it works in ubuntu this is probably just a version skew
and an update of libpulse* should fix it.

If not we need to know that too.

MfG
        Goswin