FreeBSD 7.1, skype not work

[Beech Rintoul]

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 01:21:43 Горбатовский Дмитрий wrote:
> Hi people.
> Im'm use skype-2.0.0.72,1 on my FreeBSD
>
> FreeBSD user 7.0 FreeBSD 7.0
> root at user:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/user  i386
>
> with linux "linux_base-fc6"
> /compat/linux/bin/uname -a
> Linux user 2.6.16 FreeBSD 7.0 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
> just because skype2 not work with linux_base-fc4 because it have 2.4.x
> kernel and skype need 2.6.x.
>
> I'm update FreeBSD to 7.1-RELEASE-p1
> freebsd-update fetch, install
>
> FreeBSD user 7.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p1
> root at user:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/user  i386
>
> After update I run skype and nothing happen.
>
> user# skype
> user#
>
>
> Thanks!

Try rebuilding your linux_base by following the instructions in UPDATING 
20080318 and make sure you have linprocfs mounted.

Beech

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