I've just seen this comment in the forum. http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2011/04/2_2_beta.html
Looks like I'm not the only one. I will try turning off the audio notifications. >bryhoyt commented Monday, Oct 3 >A bunch of us over here at the forum are experiencing a rather tricky issue >with Skype >silently stopping to work on 11.04. The tricky part of it is that >there is no visible sign that >it's not working -- it appears to be online, >fully green, etc. but in actual fact, nobody else >can see you online or chat >with you, and as soon as you try to send someone a chat >message, it won't go >through -- you'll get an orange exclamation mark. Same here! Happens couple times a week. Maybe it's because of PAE kernel, not sure. end quote also here http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-silently-crashes-on- Ubuntu/td-p/1162/page/2 The app maintainer seems to think it is a bug in the sound system or other parts of linux. I hope the combination of my ubuntu bug reports and skype bug reports help. regards, Frank -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/896726 Title: skype chat dies, then can't quit, have to restart To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/896726/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
