Skype outdated and cannot connect

[julcar]

I made a copy of gconf for TCL 8.x a while back to get chrome working. You can try this one: http://www.asjohnson.com/tinycorelinux/8.x/x86_64/test/GConf.tcz

Thankyou, but I think that your extension has a lot of files unneeded, instead what I did is uncompress only the needed library and place it on the same dir on the skype binary

[julcar]

Well, I think I am in the right way, now the thing is related to permissions

I modified skypeforlinux.desktop to add /local/ to the Exec parameter

and then moved all the files in /usr to /usr/local and then redid the mksquash process

now I have the "Skype" item in apps menu, but attempting to launch it does anything, in the log file shows:

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nohup: can't execute '/tmp/tcloop/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux': Permission denied

doing a ls to the binary says this

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tc@box:~$ ls -la /usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 69 Apr 30 19:58 /usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux -> /tmp/tcloop/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux

My guess is about the owner of the file, but don't know exactly what to do

[Juanito]

If you've named your extension "skype", then the command needed to check the permissions would be:

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$ ls -la /tmp/tcloop/skype/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux

[julcar]

If you've named your extension "skype", then the command needed to check the permissions would be:

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$ ls -la /tmp/tcloop/skype/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux

Sorry, I did a mistake because I copied manually the path and missed the extension name, the right path is

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/tmp/tcloop/skypeforlinux/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux
and doing a ls to the tcz

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tc@box:~$ ls -la /tmp/tcloop/skypeforlinux/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux
-rw-r--r-- 1 197611 197121 81125488 Oct 12 2018 /tmp/tcloop/skypeforlinux/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux


[Juanito]

That file should be root:root and executable.

Did you unpack the deb as root?

[julcar]

That file should be root:root and executable.

Did you unpack the deb as root?

No, I did the whole process in windows XP, I uncompressed the deb file with 7zip and created the extension with a windows version of mksquashfs

[Juanito]

You need to unpack the deb in linux:

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$ sudo ar vx skypeforlinux-64.deb
$ sudo tar xf data.tar.xz
$ ls -l /tmp/pkg/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      81125488 Oct 12  2018 /tmp/pkg/usr/local/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux


[julcar]

Ok, the permission denied error is gone, but still don't want to run, is very weird this

[andyj]

64-bit executables copied from other distros typically want files in /lib64. Try:

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ldd /path/to/skypeforlinux | grep /ld-

and see what it's looking for. You may need to create a link to /lib/ld-2.28.so for it.

[Juanito]

Even if you symlink /lib64 -> /lib, the latest skypeforlinux will fail with:

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dbus[10875]: dbus message iterator has already been closed, or is uninitialized or corrupt
Apparently this is because skypeforlinux now depends on systemd - google indicates that versions 8.29.76.43 and 8.29.0.50 do not require systemd if you can find them somewhere...

[mocore]

skypeforlinux now depends on systemd

this could be relevant ?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1086741-start-0.html - skypeforlinux 8.30.0.50 segfaults with dbus

it does look like systemd or OpenRC+elogind could be required for >skypeforlinux-8.29.0.50.

[julcar]

Even if you symlink /lib64 -> /lib, the latest skypeforlinux will fail with:

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dbus[10875]: dbus message iterator has already been closed, or is uninitialized or corrupt
Apparently this is because skypeforlinux now depends on systemd - google indicates that versions 8.29.76.43 and 8.29.0.50 do not require systemd if you can find them somewhere...

I guess I have now the correct tcz extension for skype, but it doesn't go further than the same error message

[julcar]

Here are some skype deb packages, including the 8.29.0.50 version
http://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/skype/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/

[julcar]

Here are some skype deb packages, including the 8.29.0.50 version
http://mirror.cs.uchicago.edu/skype/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/

this version does not run because an error "No such file or directory" even when ldd says all the dependencies are in place, gonna try with another version

[Juanito]

Did you remember to make the symlink /lib64 -> /lib?