Subject: Re: Skype on NetBSD
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/2005 23:56:56
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
>
>>> This is what I had to do to make things work (NetBSD/i386 3.0 NFS
>>> server with Ubuntu 5.10 client):
>>
>>     Is /opt ffsv1 or v2 on your box?
>
> Neither, I'm running Linux on my home PC when using Skype. But even then
> I couldn't make it work as the Linux client is mounting /home from my
> NetBSD/i386 3.0 server (which has nfslocking=YES in rc.conf). The solution
> was to move the .Skype directory to a local filesystem (ext3).
>
> On my laptop with NetBSD/i386 3.99.x I'm running everything locally (FFSv2)
> and I had no problems with Skype when I used it few months ago.

 	I've just tried a 3.99.11 kernel and get the same issue - if I do
 	not delete the user subdir in ~/.Skype then it always says
 	"Logging in failed" after I enter the user & password. Would you
 	be able to fire up skype twice on your laptop and confirm do you
 	not see anything similar?
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