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alsa-lib package

Skype cannot open shared sound library

Bug #277180 reported by datanalytics.com on 2008-10-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #273693: biarch alsa-lib path problem with Skype. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	alsa-lib (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	pulseaudio (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I tried to launch Skype from command line:

carlos@kropotkin:~$ skype &
[1] 9151

I loged in with username and password and the programme crashed. The console reported the following:

carlos@kropotkin:~$ ALSA lib ../../src/conf.c:2700:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
ALSA lib ../../../src/control/control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0

[1]+ Aborted (core dumped) skype

I am running Ubuntu Intrepid and this is the output of uname -a on my machine:

carlos@kropotkin:~$ uname -a
Linux kropotkin 2.6.27-4-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 01:29:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-10-02:

Confirmed, I get the same error. Also on amd64.

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Ahmad Tarek (ahmadtarek) wrote on 2008-10-02:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #273693, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.