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Hey Y’all,

Seems my Skype installation has stopped working.

I have skype-4.3.0.37-2.el6.i686.rpm from the Nux repo.

[mlapier@peach ~]$ skype %U
(:27070): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “clearlooks”, Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module”

I checked the yum log. Other than the 6.7 upgrade these are all the transactions I see.

Aug 09 20:32:28 Updated: firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.CentOS.x86_64
Aug 11 20:58:39 Updated: firefox-38.2.0-4.el6.CentOS.x86_64
Aug 11 20:58:40 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.508-release.x86_64
Aug 11 20:58:49 Updated: google-chrome-stable-44.0.2403.155-1.x86_64
Aug 12 17:29:49 Installed: opus-1.1-1.el6.x86_64

The issue did not begin with the 6.7 upgrade.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix the issue?

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One thought on - Skype Issue

  • Since skype is a 32-bit package, figure out what files include a file called “canberra-gtk-module*”. On my CentOS7 system, it’s either the libcanberra-gtk2 or libcanberra-gtk3, but I bet on CentOS6 it’s just the gtk2 one. You probably need the 32-bit libcanberra-gtk2 package. Repeat with pk-gtk-module.

    The problem is that it’s not strictly Required for Skype to have the entire 32-bit graphical environment installed, but it appears that it’s necessary to have parts of gtk installed as 32-bit.

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    Jonathan Billings