Re: [gentoo-user] skype again [solved]

2007-06-19 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 15:04, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated > > Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory > to something else. This database error sometimes occur wh

Re: [gentoo-user] skype again

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated > Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory to something else. This database error sometimes occur when Skype does not shutdown cleanly. -- Regards, Ab

Re: [gentoo-user] skype again

2007-06-19 Thread Mick
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 c

[gentoo-user] skype again

2007-06-19 Thread Matthew R. Lee
Right I've got skype installed and working, sort of. 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