Skype broken

[Almindor]

this is what it said

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

./SkyPe1.2-PV1.0.pbi: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.3, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./SkyPe1.2-PV1.0.pbi: Shared object has no run-time symbol table

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Saeed]

I downloaded the Skype PBI, but it won't install...

[cb22]

Yes, yes i know... Its because i uploaded the PBI in ASCII mode... as soon as a regain use of a PCBSD box, i'll upload it again

[Saeed]

OK that certainly explains the problem :)

Hope you get the PBI uploaded soon.

[Charles]

Yes, yes i know... Its because i uploaded the PBI in ASCII mode... as soon as a regain use of a PCBSD box, i'll upload it again

:shock: Did you use a sort of command-line FTP client?

[cb22]

Yes, i used cURL

[Stay d]

May I ask you about the delay of uploading the correct bits ? :)

I am sorry if my question is rude, but the package is one of 5 most wanted software like OpenOffice or Opera, it presents on the main side of pbidir.

It could be about disappoint for newcomers.

Can I help you someway in uploading the correct version ?

I think it is about time to do so. :wink:

What do you think about :?:

[pcbsdusr]

I agree. we must fix those nasty broken pbis fast or we will lose people.

[Charles]

Agreed.

[pcbsdusr]

It's bad that i have been hearing people complaining about the same few broken apps for weeks now...


Can't someone create new packages if the original creators dont take care of them?

[mal.exe]

I'm on my way to create a lot of different pbi, i already created (as test) pbi for Putty, Qcad and Xnview. Are there any other software, people would like to make into pbi ?

[crossbonez]

I'm on my way to create a lot of different pbi, i already created (as test) pbi for Putty, Qcad and Xnview. Are there any other software, people would like to make into pbi ?

- WINE 0.9.5+
- JAPANESE/CHINESE/KOREAN INPUT MANAGERS (a utitlity to type those languages) <<this one seems abit challenging..
- VLC player 0.8.4a+
- a media player that comes with most common codecs, such as WMV,quicktime & plugins for Konqueror / Firefox / Mozilla that let users play those media inside the browser

:oops:

[mal.exe]

There are already version of Wine and VLC (probably older, so yes i can try to make newer pbi for both, maybe tonigh) as for the japanese/chinese/etc.. input manager, do you have a name for a software that does this ?

[crossbonez]

There are already version of Wine and VLC (probably older, so yes i can try to make newer pbi for both, maybe tonigh) as for the japanese/chinese/etc.. input manager, do you have a name for a software that does this ?

i think the name of the app is "SCIM"??
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaoj/pmw ... /SCIMPorts (http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaoj/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FreeBSD/SCIMPorts)

[Stay d]

So something new about or we have still broken Skype, don´t we ?

[gnutux]

well, if there was a FreeBSD version, I would not need the suse 9.3 thingy which is pissing me off since other software require rh8

gnutux

[molnarcs]

Isn't skype working with linux-base-8? On stock freebsd, it does, though I had problems with sound (solved by the fine folks at freebsd-multimedia)...

[Charles]

PC-BSD only has linux_base-7

[molnarcs]

Ah, I see - that might be a problem. FreeBSD changed to linux-base 8 a year ago, because 7 became a security liability - updates were no longer availabe. Base 8 seems to work with everything (I tried to change to something newer, but there was really no point, because I had to constantly correct dependencies with pkgdb -F).

Actually 8 is not purely 8 either, because many RPMs are updated - and some even come from SuSE! I noticed that actually when I took a look at the RPMs one of the port downloads.

Would it be too difficult to change to linux-base 8? Linux is self contained, so all one needs to do is wrap up everything in /usr/compat/linux in a large pbi. The bigger work actually is to find out what exactly is needed with as many as possible of the linux-progs available in ports - and make a decision of what to include, and what to leave to the pbi maintainers. If you need any help with this, I may be able to help when I'll have a little time...

[pcbsdusr]

that pbi is on pbidir. http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=52

I still dont know why did Kris uset version 7 instead of 8..



Cheers,

Renato Flórido

[molnarcs]

PC-BSD only has linux_base-7

I just downloaded linux-compat from pbidir - and it installs linux_base-8!


molnarcs@mcsaba$ ls /Programs/LinuxBinaryCompat1.0/
PBI.RemoveScript.sh* linux_base-8-8.0_6.tbz
PBI.SetupScript.sh* penguin.png
RemoveLinuxBin.sh readme
linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_2.tbz rmlines*
linux-expat-1.95.5_2.tbz rpm-3.0.6_9.tbz
linux-fontconfig-2.1_2.tbz


I'll try to fix the skype package. In addition to the libraries that LinuxBinaryCompat has, it needs linux_dri.

[pcbsdusr]

i'd really like to see skype finally fixed and the title of this thread changed to "Fixed"... :cry:

[molnarcs]

I'm working on it now - trying to sort out some dependencies (that seems to be wrongly defined in the ports in the first place).

Don't expect Skype to be problem free, even if it works. For me it had problems with sound, which is due to problems with the FreeBSD sound subsystem. Some of these had been fixed recently, but these fixes will be available only when the PC-BSD base is updated. I suppose PC-BSD devs will update it when 6.1 is released (I don't see PC-BSD 1.0 final released before that). I'll try to add a troubleshooting guide that describes these problems - and possible solutions.

[pcbsdusr]

Thanks mate! :D

[molnarcs]

Ok, please test (at this stage, whether it starts up or not).

EDIT: see the latest test version in the posts below. this one is no longer available...

ftp://hatvani.unideb.hu/pub/PCBSD/skype1.2.0.18-PV1.pbi

[kh54]

Great job.
The Skype PBI installed ok and asked for Linux compat to function properly. I downloaded the linux compat, installed and rebooted as requested. When I run Skype, however, it gives the following error message:
'/Programs/skype1.2.0.18/skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'?
I'm installing libGL through ports now and hope the problem can be managed with that?

[molnarcs]

Aha, that seems to be an Nvidia file. Ok, I will repackage it tonight (I built this one from the skype I have installed)...

Thanks for the report :)

[kh54]

YRW but I don't have Nvidia cards? my vega is ATI Rage Mobility AGP 2X?
Installation of libGL through ports gave the following error:
"libGL-1.0_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
xorg-libraries-6.8.2

They install files into the same place.
Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
*** Error code 1"
I would wait for new package to try
:D

[molnarcs]

Yeah, don't install it :) I believe skype looks for those files in linuxbase (which is /usr/compat) - and if you don't have linux_dri installed, it won't work. But don't install it, let me include it in the next .pbi, so it will work problem free :)

[kh54]

Thanks for reply. I already discarded it and would be waiting for new pbi to test but certainly you have done a great job making this pbi installable rather than the old quite dead one. Thanks for time and effort on that :D

[molnarcs]

Try this, I included libGL.so.1 in the extra libs folder, I hope it works (I followed youlle's tutorial, I hope I got it right).

ftp://hatvani.unideb.hu/pub/PCBSD/skype ... -PV0.9.pbi (ftp://hatvani.unideb.hu/pub/PCBSD/skype1.2.0.18-PV0.9.pbi)

[kh54]

WOW, congratulations molnarcs. We finally got installable and workable Skype pbi here. It installed and opened most smoothly. Thanks allot for the excellent job mate :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[molnarcs]

Glad to hear that. I just changed the pbi on the ftp (has the same filename). Remove the one you have currently installed (even if it works) and replace it with the new one. The reason is that by default, skype (the executable that is installed) is just a script that calls skype_bin. However, due to a bug (?) in PBI creator, when you run a script or a console program, bogus error messages are shown (you'll see that when you quit skype). Also, files are placed in your home directory, beginning with a dot, that look like this: .stderrinsomething .stderroutblah. You can remove all those. They are not shown by default (files beginning with a dot are "hidden"), but you can set konqueror to show them in View --> Show Hidden Files. If they are not there, than you are fine :)

The new pbi runs skype_bin directly, so no bogus error message should appear when you exit it. I will upload the new version to pbidir once I finish the troubleshooting guide/readme and include it with the pbi. Once others (Charles?) eyeball it and find it acceptable, it will be included on the the main pbi site.

[kh54]

Thanks again for the update and I would download and install the new pbi.
You have done a great job and all here would be most glad for finally having Skype working. I think you should inform Charles on that as they are currently working to fix the broken pbi at pbi directory.
I wonder if you can manage to fix the Realplayer broken pbi also when you have time for that, quite greedy isn't :D

[kh54]

I downloaded the latest pbi and installed. When checking the Options, I noticed that the audio device assigned for calls is /dev/dsp while audio devices listed in my /dev directory starts with dsp0.0 to dsp0.5 and I wonder if this device listed in Skype Options menu would be working? I don't have any of my contacts online to test for that now and I'm newbie to Unix, fogive me for that :?:

[molnarcs]

Yes, I noticed that too, but it works actually. I couldn't find a way to change /dev/dsp in Skype, but it works anyhow. You need to set the proper mixer values, but instructions to do that will be included in a README.

[kh54]

This OK and no problem with naming there as long as it's working.
Thanks again for great job

[molnarcs]

Ok, this seems to be a pre-final version (it is final as soon as it will be included in pbidir).

ftp://hatvani.unideb.hu/pub/PCBSD/skype1.2.0.18-PV1.pbi

In addition to the previous version, it installs a help file, with some recommendations for setting up the proper mixer valuse (record source, mic value) and some troubleshooting if yo encounter a "Problem with sound device" message.

As always, uninstall the previous one before installing it.

[pcbsdusr]

Just got home. Testing in a couple of minutes :D

UPDATE:

OK, it seems to be working now. should i look for any abnormality in particular?

Great to see this progressing finally! :D Great job mate!!! Keep up the good attitude!

I'll be here tomorrow checking out the latest info on this thread.

Cheers!

Renato Flórido

[Stay d]

Hello all,

I came back yesterday to watch thread and saw that things have moved since my last visit.

I honer that at least at the end, somebody so molnarcs turns up and has a time to fix it and share his hard work with us.

Thank you, molnarcs.

Today I downloaded skype package from main site http://www.pbidir.com again and logged in as a root user, I tried to install it, but it did not work. :(

Open Skype1.2.0.18-PV1.0.pbi with runpbi.sh ends with this named dialog "KDE su":

"Command '/root/.pbistart' not found"

what is definitely true, I do not have this file in this location.

What do I do in wrong way ?

I tried to download file from molnarcs directly from link which he has published here in thread on the 6th of Frebruay "ftp://hatvani.unideb.hu/pub/PCBSD/skype1.2.0.18-PV1.pbi", but without any success. No connection.

[Charles]

This is a known bug, and it should be fixed next release ;)

[Donovan]

I get the same error, but with almost every new pbi that i get. Is there a temporary workarround? My problem is not with skype (Dont use it) but with the last update... the patch 3, After 9 to 15 minutes, everything unpacks, kde su appears, and then... /home/myself/.pbistart not found error.
plz, any kind help is apreciated in advanced... (i'm tearing my (very little) hair off) :(


Thanx in advance!


D_V_L

[Stay d]

In another my installation of PCBSD, i installed skype as usual user and kde su worked well.

For the first time, I have installed skype at the end and it works now, but ...

... language I guess it is english in default distribution, I have something bad with encoding, because instead of latin letters, I have all squares only.

When I try to change language blindlof to another language, it is the same without any success to view latin letters.

My kde language is CZ. I think with UTF-8 ???

[Charles]

Yes, always use UTF-8, otherwise you'll have squares instead of ó ù ñ, etc...

[Stay d]

Okay I find out that it is UTF-8 as by default, because I did not change anything.

And I have these squares instead of latin letters in english language.

But others application is okay, only skype has this problem.

[molnarcs]

That's where I'm stuck as well. My guess is that it is because some libs or config files are missing from the new linux binary compat. It worked with downloadable linux compat, but that's not a good idea now, becaue it may conflict with the current linux compat.

My suggestion is to not include linux compat at all in the base install, but provide it as a downloadable PBI, which contains all necessary packages. There are only 2-3 linux apps that the majority of users would need anyway, and except for skype, they are all related to that damned flash support issue. We only need linux compat for a few selected packages. I could install all possible PBI candidate linux packages, take notes of what (linux compat) dependencies they pull in, and package them in big fat linux PBI (fat as in <50 Mb in my estimate). This would solve the skype problem, as well as it will make packaging linux apps a breeze (no extralibs would be necessary, just a linux_compat pbi installed).

[Amigamerlin]

That's where I'm stuck as well. My guess is that it is because some libs or config files are missing from the new linux binary compat. It worked with downloadable linux compat, but that's not a good idea now, becaue it may conflict with the current linux compat.

My suggestion is to not include linux compat at all in the base install, but provide it as a downloadable PBI, which contains all necessary packages. There are only 2-3 linux apps that the majority of users would need anyway, and except for skype, they are all related to that damned flash support issue. We only need linux compat for a few selected packages. I could install all possible PBI candidate linux packages, take notes of what (linux compat) dependencies they pull in, and package them in big fat linux PBI (fat as in <50 Mb in my estimate). This would solve the skype problem, as well as it will make packaging linux apps a breeze (no extralibs would be necessary, just a linux_compat pbi installed).


I agree with molnarcs, to have a downloadable linux layer nad not one included in PC-BSD.

[Stay d]

Okay I find out that it is UTF-8 as by default, because I did not change anything.

And I have these squares instead of latin letters in english language.

But others application is okay, only skype has this problem.

Yesterday I installed next pcbsd virtualmachine workstation PCBSD 1.1 and the first thing what I did it was installation of Skype.

I was disappointed, because after 2 months, nothing is changed.

There are still ugly squares instead of nice normal latin ISO-8859-1 letters.

Is it really so hard problem which it could not be resolved for months ?

What do I do wrong ?

After that I am hopeless and sad.
:(

[antik]

[quote="Stay d":1c159]Okay I find out that it is UTF-8 as by default, because I did not change anything.

And I have these squares instead of latin letters in english language.

But others application is okay, only skype has this problem.

Yesterday I installed next pcbsd virtualmachine workstation PCBSD 1.1 and the first thing what I did it was installation of Skype.

I was disappointed, because after 2 months, nothing is changed.

There are still ugly squares instead of nice normal latin ISO-8859-1 letters.[/quote:1c159]

You have to install linux-fontconfig port:

# pkg_add -r linux-fontconfig

[Stay d]

You have to install linux-fontconfig port:

# pkg_add -r linux-fontconfig
Thank you.

I did not like pkg_add, I did it through ports collection.

Now it works ! PERFECT !

[Stay d]

It didn´t take much time and skype is broken again, at least for me.

With new installation of 1.2 version of PC-BSD and installing skype PBI immediately after first start, it does not work again.

It tries something but go away and no error message :(

1 man confirms to me that, skype is broken again.

What´s going on ?

[Amigamerlin]

It didn´t take much time and skype is broken again, at least for me.

With new installation of 1.2 version of PC-BSD and installing skype PBI immediately after first start, it does not work again.

It tries something but go away and no error message :(

1 man confirms to me that, skype is broken again.

What´s going on ?

I've build the current Skype package and it's not broken.
I use it every day.
To have it fully working you have to install Linux Binary Compatibility 2.0 (RH8) and you will have skype back.

You can find the linux binary compatibility in the PC-BSD second CD or alternatively you can download it from here:

http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=303

This info about the requirement can be found here:

http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=212

Let me know.

Bye

[Stay d]

Aaa, this happens.

Again, skype deos not work with standard linux_base-fc.

Is this the thing that happend here ?

I have a presentiment a few days ago, there was not this information about dependency.

It is a pity, that standard linux_base-fc does not suffice.

[dracheflieger]

The standard linux base FC does work if you make install from ports. The Skype PBI was made when rh8 was the standard compatiblity layer but they (FreeBSD) have recently changed it from that to Fedora Core. I compiled skype from the ports and it works fine.

[Amigamerlin]

Aaa, this happens.

Again, skype deos not work with standard linux_base-fc.

Is this the thing that happend here ?

I have a presentiment a few days ago, there was not this information about dependency.

It is a pity, that standard linux_base-fc does not suffice.

Did you read my previous post?
If you want to use the PBi install the RH8.8 compatibility layer.

Anyway the Monolitic linux Skype Archive distribute by the SKype site works with fedora core too. I tested it.

I'll try to build a Skype PBI specific for fedora core 4 ... BUT ... if you want to play Games don't expect to have a big chance with Fedora Core, this at least for me !! I wasn't never able to play games like Doom3 or Quake IV or America's Army with Fedora Core 4.
If someone was able to do that post here their experience .

Thanks in advance.

Bye

[fork]

hi!
I have the same problem with skype, only squares instead of letters are displayed. my linux-compat* is rh8.8 or so, "LinuxBinaryCompatibility2.0-PV1.1.pbi" more exactly. what could i do?
thx in advance,
fork

[Amigamerlin]

hi!
I have the same problem with skype, only squares instead of letters are displayed. my linux-compat* is rh8.8 or so, "LinuxBinaryCompatibility2.0-PV1.1.pbi" more exactly. what could i do?
thx in advance,
fork

Be sure you have installed Linux Binary Compatibility Layer 2.0.
Uninstall and reinstall Skype PBI.
Let me know.

Bye

[fork]

i think I've installed the correct linux binary compatibility layer, but i cannot install it again, because the pbi-installer complains about a corrupted pbi although I've downloaded it a second time... skype is still not working correctly. i had it already working here, but after a systemupdate it changed. the only problem is that i don't remember exactly what I've done to get it working.. i think i had found a howto to patch the skype*.pbi, but i cannot find it again. i don't have much time at the moment, but today evening i am going to check the md5-sums of the linux...layers.
thx so far

[Amigamerlin]

i think I've installed the correct linux binary compatibility layer, but i cannot install it again, because the pbi-installer complains about a corrupted pbi although I've downloaded it a second time... skype is still not working correctly. i had it already working here, but after a systemupdate it changed. the only problem is that i don't remember exactly what I've done to get it working.. i think i had found a howto to patch the skype*.pbi, but i cannot find it again. i don't have much time at the moment, but today evening i am going to check the md5-sums of the linux...layers.
thx so far

PC-BSD 1.2 cd#2 has in it a valid copy of Linux Binary Compatibility Layer 2.0 PBI. You can install it from there and it will work for sure.
No need to patch skype PBI if you install th LBCL 2.0.

Otherwise you need to install linux-fontconfig-2.1_x.tbz package

Here (http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=3275&highlight=unofficial+skype) you can find detailed info about.

Bye

[fork]

i don't have cd#2 and my hdd is already pretty full -> i don't want to download it only for a single pbi.
i have already installed linux-fontconfig.


felix# pkg_add -r linux-fontconfig
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/linux-fontconfig.tbz... Done.
pkg_add: package 'linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_2' or its older version already installed
felix#


any other ideas? to have a working skype would be really nice ;)

[antik]

felix# pkg_add -r linux-fontconfig
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/linux-fontconfig.tbz... Done.
pkg_add: package 'linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_2' or its older version already installed
felix#


any other ideas? to have a working skype would be really nice ;)

# portupgrade linux-fontconfig

[fork]

i have installed: * x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig (linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_2)

portupgrade linux-fontconfig didn't work, so i tried it with the -f(orce)-parameter.
result:
===> linux_base-fc-4_6 conflicts with installed package(s):
linux_base-8-8.0_14

They install files into the same place.
Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
and
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
! x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig (linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_5) (install error)
* x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig (linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_2)


not exactly the thing i wanted^^

so nobody of you has heard / read of a how-to to patch the skype*.pbi manually? i think i've read it somewhere here in the forum, but i cannot find it any longer :(

and some additional infos:
when i try to start skype from the konsole (it works, but also without letters i can read^^) i get the following output:


Fontconfig warning: line 273: invalid edit binding "same"
Fontconfig warning: line 285: invalid edit binding "same"