Here is the output of strace -o foo skype

You didn't attach the strace output.

Please also try to run "LD_DEBUG=files skype" and check if the last few lines of output contain a library that doesn't exist on your system.

Also fwiw I can't reproduce.

OK, I will try again. I added another file with the last few lines of the LD_DEBUG output. It complains about a symbol (don't know why, and then a symlink for libjson-c.so.2 that seems to be OK (unless it is hardwired and the change to /usr/lib is causing this?).

Openresolv 3.5.5-1 and extra/json-c 0.11-1 and extra/qjson 0.8.1-2 are installed.

The symlinks seem to be OK?

Don't know anything about the strace output.

[david@kyoko Public]$ ls -l /usr/lib32/libresolv*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83804 Jan 22 18:50 /usr/lib32/libresolv-2.17.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102642 Jan 22 18:50 /usr/lib32/libresolv.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 22 18:50 /usr/lib32/libresolv.so -> libresolv.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 22 18:50 /usr/lib32/libresolv.so.2 -> libresolv-2.17.so


[david@kyoko Public]$ ls -l /usr/lib/*json*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 7 14:27 /usr/lib/libjson-c.so -> libjson-c.so.2.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 7 14:27 /usr/lib/libjson-c.so.2 -> libjson-c.so.2.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43792 Jun 7 14:27 /usr/lib/libjson-c.so.2.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 16 17:01 /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so -> libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.1600.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 16 17:01 /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0 -> libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.1600.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 156368 Apr 16 17:01 /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.1600.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 7 14:27 /usr/lib/libjson.so -> libjson.so.0.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 7 14:27 /usr/lib/libjson.so.0 -> libjson.so.0.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5904 Jun 7 14:27 /usr/lib/libjson.so.0.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 26 02:30 /usr/lib/libqjson.so -> libqjson.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 26 02:30 /usr/lib/libqjson.so.0 -> libqjson.so.0.8.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 164128 Feb 26 02:30 /usr/lib/libqjson.so.0.8.1

Yet again strace output wasn't attached, hopefully it is here this time. Oh, it was too big!

Thanks for the output. I get just the same when running with LD_DEBUG here, but my skype doesn't crash. The strace output doesn't tell me anything.

libresolv.so isn't part of openresolv, it's from glibc. Apart from that the 2nd ls -l is /usr/lib, but we need /usr/lib32.

Here is /usr/lib32:


[david@kyoko lib32]$ ls -l /usr/lib32/*json*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 27 20:46 /usr/lib32/libjson.so -> libjson.so.0.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 27 20:46 /usr/lib32/libjson.so.0 -> libjson.so.0.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34544 Jan 27 20:46 /usr/lib32/libjson.so.0.1.0

I didn't think there was a 32-bit version of libjson-c, but pacman -Qm tells me I have it installed.

Hmm, lib32-json-c 0.11-1 according to arch's site is supposed to include:

usr/lib32/libjson-c.so
usr/lib32/libjson-c.so.2
usr/lib32/libjson-c.so.2.0.1

which my version obviously doesn't have. Reinstalling gives the same situation. So, I am guessing I should report a bug to these guys and that should solve my skype issue?

P.S. I had to use pacman -Qm because I had multilib disabled, but I reenabled it.

That's indeed interesting. Could you compare the output of "pacman -Qi lib32-json-c" (no need for the -m btw) with this?

Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date : Fri 07 Jun 2013 07:05:45 PM CEST
Install Date : Wed 19 Jun 2013 10:56:49 AM CEST

If any of these 3 differ, please figure out where your package came from and install the one from our repo.

I only had to use -m because I had multilib commented out. I reenabled and re-installed lib32-json-c from the arch repository, with the same missing file and symlinks, so I reported that as a bug, and I guess it is causing my problem here. I don't have any repositories enabled other than the default ones for arch, and a few things from the AUR that are completely unrelated, the only library for instance being libaacs-git.

[david@kyoko Public]$ pacman -Qi lib32-json-c
Name : lib32-json-c
Version : 0.10-2
Description : A JSON implementation in C (32-bit)
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
Licenses : MIT
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : lib32-glibc json-c
Optional Deps : None
Required By : lib32-libpulse
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 52.00 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date : Sun 27 Jan 2013 08:46:59 PM NST
Install Date : Thu 04 Jul 2013 06:45:01 PM NDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

Your version of lib32-json-c is 0.10-2 while 0.11-1 is the current one. Either your mirror doesn't sync or you didn't update recently.

I only had to use -m because I had multilib commented out. I reenabled and re-installed lib32-json-c from the arch repository, with the same missing file and symlinks, so I reported that as a bug, and I guess it is causing my problem here. I don't have any repositories enabled other than the default ones for arch, and a few things from the AUR that are completely unrelated, the only library for instance being libaacs-git.

[david@kyoko Public]$ pacman -Qi lib32-json-c
Name : lib32-json-c
Version : 0.10-2
Description : A JSON implementation in C (32-bit)
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
Licenses : MIT
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : lib32-glibc json-c
Optional Deps : None
Required By : lib32-libpulse
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 52.00 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date : Sun 27 Jan 2013 08:46:59 PM NST
Install Date : Thu 04 Jul 2013 06:45:01 PM NDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

I only had to use -m because I had multilib commented out. I reenabled and re-installed lib32-json-c from the arch repository, with the same missing file and symlinks, so I reported that as a bug, and I guess it is causing my problem here. I don't have any repositories enabled other than the default ones for arch, and a few things from the AUR that are completely unrelated, the only library for instance being libaacs-git.

[david@kyoko Public]$ pacman -Qi lib32-json-c
Name : lib32-json-c
Version : 0.10-2
Description : A JSON implementation in C (32-bit)
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
Licenses : MIT
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : lib32-glibc json-c
Optional Deps : None
Required By : lib32-libpulse
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 52.00 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date : Sun 27 Jan 2013 08:46:59 PM NST
Install Date : Thu 04 Jul 2013 06:45:01 PM NDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

Yes, that was it. I was doing pacman -Syu all the time, but where I had multilib commented out for other reasons, when I went to check on this matter I never thought that multilib might not be up to date when I uncommented it. Problem solved in my case. Best to pay attention!