Public bug reported: A lot of users are having the following problem, reported to the Skype forum with no oficial answer from Skype:
Skype keep stops responding randomly afres seconds or minutes, without an apparent reason. It kept silently freezing, with the interface *still appearing to be working* - but to all my friends I would appear off-line and my instant messages would not go through - and on trying to quit Skype it would freeze and I would have to quit with pgrep skype and then kill -s 9.I've to kill the process to be able to launch it again. I've read a lot of people with the same problem in the other forum posts (the old forum?). more on: http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-silently-crashes-on- Ubuntu/td-p/1162 It seems to be affecting everyone I know using a 64bit version of Ubuntu (I'm using 12.04 and Skype package from the partner repository) under different hardware setups. ** Affects: skype (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/980320 Title: Skype silently crashes on Ubuntu 64bits To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/980320/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs