Comment 60 for bug 646862

I had a slightly similar problem: Skype did NOT crash after signing in,
but it froze at irregular times, e.g. when using Skype Chat.

Thanks for the file permission change tip!

cd /usr/lib32
sudo chmod ugo-r libpulse.so.0.12.2
sudo chmod ugo-r libpulse-simple.so.0.0.3

My Ubuntu 10.10 didn't have those files in /usr/lib32/
but with the "locate" command I was able to locate them in /usr/lib/
With "sudo chmod ugo-r" I changed the permissions of those two files from 644 to 200,
and Skype seems to work without freezing....

Thanks!