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From: gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:27:52
Message-Id: CA+t6X7cJBt_WGqawkbP8tengpeZkqDHzAf9awd1mYZ1DTHWO=A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start by Mick
1 пт, 5 окт. 2018 г. в 13:25, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>:
2 >
3 > On Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:40:57 BST gevisz wrote:
4 > > чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:16, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-
5 > asynchrony.com>:
6 > > > On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote:
7 > > > > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.
8 > > > >
9 > > > > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
10 > > > > I even do not get "permission denied" message.
11 > > >
12 > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396
13 > > >
14 > > > For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just emerge it
15 > > > and it should work; it did for me.
16 > >
17 > > It has worked for me. Thank you.
18 >
19 > I've had the same symptom and I also do not have elogind installed. If
20 > elogind is necessary, shouldn't it be specified in the ebuild as a dependency?
21
22 It exactly what the bug report mensioned above state.
23
24 > Since I'm running console-kit, but not elogind, or systemd, couldn't skype be
25 > made to work with that instead?
26
27 You should ask Microsoft about it. :)
28
29 Version 8.29.50 of skypeforlinux still works without elogind,
30 so you may chose to downgrade to it.