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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:24:50
Message-Id: 3040018.hQOlyQqfNa@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start by gevisz
1 On Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:40:57 BST gevisz wrote:
2 > чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:16, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-
3 asynchrony.com>:
4 > > On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote:
5 > > > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.
6 > > >
7 > > > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
8 > > > I even do not get "permission denied" message.
9 > >
10 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396
11 > >
12 > > For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just emerge it
13 > > and it should work; it did for me.
14 >
15 > It has worked for me. Thank you.
16
17 I've had the same symptom and I also do not have elogind installed. If
18 elogind is necessary, shouldn't it be specified in the ebuild as a dependency?
19
20 Since I'm running console-kit, but not elogind, or systemd, couldn't skype be
21 made to work with that instead?
22
23 --
24 Regards,
25 Mick

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