Can not load Skype. {SOLVED}

Seca · Post by **Seca** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:33 am

Whenever I try to run Skype, I get a slew of messages like 'Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64' in the terminal.

I've already installed ia32-libs-gtk and have had this program running in a past installation on the same hardware. Any help or hints in the right direction would be appreciated. Lmde -fully updated as of 1-20-2011.

{SOLVED}Skype was pulling in qt libraries from a separate partition. I unmounted the offending partition and now Skype loads.

Elisa: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=95626 (which was linked to through the first link you posted) is the link that helped me. I ran the command ldd /usr/bin/skype | grep -i Qt and realized that the qt libraries were indeed accessible through my chroot. Pulling from different qt libraries caused a fatal error in Skype. Removing the chroot fixed the qt errors. The other errors are still there but aren't fatal.

This fix won't apply to other users unless running a chroot. For other users that experience a similar problem of skype not starting, check to make sure that you don't have two different versions of qt installed.
Thanks for the links peeps.

Habitual · Post by **Habitual** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:18 am

Seen this?
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... rc#p360427

Seca · Post by **Seca** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:27 am

Yeah,I saw that thread. I remember from before, skype would say something to the effect of libmurrine no longer used and then launch right up. Not so in this install.

Elisa · Post by **Elisa** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:47 am

Hitting search engine I've found some solutions:

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=412841
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1263467

tux_errante · Post by **tux_errante** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:42 pm

Hi !
I've the same error and distribution (LDME) but the problem isn't that skype don't start, is the crash after clicking on the webcam configuration !
The webcam works fine with Cheese, emesene and on..
I've just tried this but nothing ..

This is what I've wrote :

I'm sorry, but skype still crashing, after I've tried both methods.. any help ?

driver uvcvideo
card videowebcam
Linux mint Debian kernel 2.6.32-5amd64, Gnome

here's the output:

alessandro@alex-pc ~ $ skype
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(:27358): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(:27358): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
/usr/local/bin/skype: line 2: 27358 Segmentation fault LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so /usr/bin/skype

any ideas ?

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