qtwebkit-2.3.0-1.fc17.i686 makes Skype segfault

[Laurent Rineau]

Le lundi 22 avril 2013 07:15:27 Rex Dieter a écrit :
> On 04/22/2013 05:04 AM, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> > Le vendredi 19 avril 2013 15:33:37 Rex Dieter a écrit :
> >> On 04/16/2013 06:54 AM, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I know that Skype is a proprietary software, but I want to let you know
> >>> that qtwebkit-2.3.0-1.fc17.i686 from kde-unstable (Fedora 17) makes
> >>> Skype
> >>> segfault at startup.
> >>> 
> >>> The setup that works is the following:
> >>>     renoir ~ $ rpm -q skype qtwebkit.i686
> >>>     skype-4.1.0.20-fc16.i586
> >>>     qtwebkit-2.2.2-5.fc17.i686
> >>> 
> >>> If I upgrade using kde-unstable, then Skype segfaults.
> >> 
> >> Put qtwebkit-2.3.1-0.1 into kde-unstable just now, at least one ubuntu
> >> user claims it resolves the skype problem for them.  Mind trying it to
> >> confirm or not?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, it still segfaults on my machine: Fedora 17, 64 bits, but
> > Skype is 32 bits.
> > renoir ~ $ rpm -q skype qtwebkit.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
> > skype-4.1.0.20-fc16.i586
> > qtwebkit-2.3.1-0.1.fc17.i686
> > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-304.64-3.fc17.i686
> 
> OK, another workaround, try invoking skype as:
> 
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 skype

I already said in the discussion that it was one of the workarounds I know. 
The other one is to downgrade qtwebkit.

> Fwiw, anyone seeing this *not* using nvidia drivers?

The segfault is in libGL from nvidia drivers. Even if the bug has been 
triggered by the upgrade of qtwebkit, the bug is certainly related to the use 
of nvidia drivers. Unfortunately. As I said, let's wait for the nvidia 
developers to solve the issue.