The solution in comment #12 worked for me as well. This must be a bug in the upgrade from Natty to Oneiric and one that likely needs to be addressed in the skype package that exists in the Ubuntu/Canonical partner repository.
The solution in comment #12 worked for me as well. This must be a bug in the upgrade from Natty to Oneiric and one that likely needs to be addressed in the skype package that exists in the Ubuntu/Canonical partner repository.