skype causes CPU soft lockup when receiving video

[Lars Kr. Lundin]

Synaptic lists the package as skype-static-oss, but the web-form rejects this name.

Lockup is reproducible:
1) Skype someone who has video skype and send video, and display sent video with local client.
2) Enable reception of video from the other party.
3) Machines freezes before any video from the other party is displayed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: skype-static-oss 2.0.0.72-0medibuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: skype
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. I've added the Medibuntu project to this bug to help you further. Thanks!

If you are interested in learning more about software repositories and Ubuntu the following pages should be informative:

1. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components - information about Ubuntu repositories
2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories - information regarding managing repositories

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Skype has been dropped from Medibuntu (Bug #494564), closing all related tasks.