Skype 4.3.0.37 crashes, both on original 12.04 as well as after 14.04 upgrade (have *.crash log)

[Michael Vorburger]

The new Skype 4.3.0.37 (which is now mandatory, previous version do not work anymore - you cannot login) crashes for, both on my originally installed 12.04 as well as after a 14.04 upgrade. The previous version used to work fine for me, so I think this is probably a new problem, not covered by various other existing closed Skype bugs (e.g. I've tried the LD_PRELOAD=.../mesa/libGL.so.1 from bug #1155327 <= http://askubuntu.com/questions/285642/skype-crashes-with-a-segmentation-fault, and that's not it).

Attached is a *.crash. I've tried to submit this via ubuntu-bug *.crash as suggested on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs, but it didn't do anything

On start up I get this on the Console, but if I understand https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/overlay-scrollbar/+bug/1134202 correctly, this is only "noise", and not actually the root cause of the issue:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module"

$ sudo apt-cache policy skype
skype:
  Installed: 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Candidate: 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty/partner amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I'd be willing to help debug this if it's of any value to others - please provide steps of what you would need me to do.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

did you try to delete your .Skype folder?

[Michael Vorburger (mike-vorburger)]

> did you try to delete your .Skype folder?

Hello Jean-Luc (i.e. LocutusOfBorg - cool name BTW) - nice one, that indeed actually did the trick - didn't think; grazie!!

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

>Hello Jean-Luc (i.e. LocutusOfBorg - cool name BTW) - nice one, that indeed actually did the trick - didn't think; grazie!!

wonderful, so I don't need to assimilate you, you should be already assimilated :D

So I think I'll close this bug ;)

Resistance is futile,

G.