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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:40:44 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com>
Cc:        Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Starting Skype
Message-ID:  <20061109194044.1c64dc30@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <4552E948.9020709@sun-fish.com>
References:  <45524F6C.1020708@comcast.net> <4552E948.9020709@sun-fish.com>

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On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:39:36 +0200
Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> wrote:

> Are you using FreeBSD 6.2-prerelease i386 ? because I have similar
> problems. When I start skype as user (never tried with superuser) it
> cannot connect, and while trying
> to do so, it fuck up the whole network. Also when this happened skype=20
> cannot be killed with -9 even.
>=20
> I tried to find something with ktrace, but I really do not understand=20
> very much what's going on.
> I notice that skype goes mad and calls a lot gethostbyname().

Please post the ktrace / truss output somewhere. Does your host name
resolve ? /etc/hosts ?


> Well skype is binary (for linux) without debug symbols in it so I
> guess it is almost impossible to know what happens,

Indeed it's very frustrating.

> and may be those complains have to be sent to skype.com ? :)

Maybe.

--=20
IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
  "Intellectual Property" is   nowhere near as valuable   as "Intellect"

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