On Tuesday 19 June 2007 15:37, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> Right I've got skype installed and working, sort of.

Which one?  I am still running skype-1.3.0.53-r1, but I can see that all are 
hard masked except for skype-1.4.0.74-r1 (which is masked by keyword).

I don't want to uninstall it because I currently use it almost on a daily 
basis.  I may wait this out.

> If I launch it from the start menu it asks me for my password, which I
> enter, It then say "database error" and refuses to logon.
> I've contacted skype, they suggested the following:
> We suggest you delete ~/.Skype/shared.xml and ~/.Skype/skypename/config.xml
> directories.  You have to kill the process with Skype and restart your
> computer as well.
> It didn't work.
> I can launch and use skype from the command line as root, which suggests it
> might be a permissions issue.  But the question is where, I've looked at
> the group file and I cant see any obvious groups which my user needs to be
> a member of.
> Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated

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Regards,
Mick

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