Comment 31 for bug 53216

Jerome wrote:
> BTW, I just noticed that a newer skype version is available.
> http://skype.com/download/skype/linux/changelog.html
>
> Let us know if it stops triggering the bug.

This is the version I've been running and it hasn't solved the problem.

gst wrote:
> I disabled audio notification for incoming chats and it never hangs on chats - only on calls. So it seems that
> the reason for the lockups may be related to audio output.

Seconded - this also stopped my hang-up problem. I very rarely use the VoIP part of Skype anyway, so this has neatly worked around my particular problem. However, I'll try running Skype through strace as outlined above, turn audio notifications back on and see if I can come up with something useful. It would be nice to get this little niggle fixed.