Hi All, 2 days ago, I used skype on my laptop, which hadn't seen the net before then. I successfully spoke with my mother, and had no problems. Yesterday, I had what I believe was an unauthorized access to my laptop, so, I changed all passwds on my smoothwall box, and also put the local host onto a new subnet. Today, I experienced some weirdness with skype, where, I could hear/be heard, but, the ring tone for calling/receiving had stopped. I most certainly made no changes to skype's configuration. Today, whilst snooping around my laptop, for numerous things, I came upon some files in /tmp, which I don't recognize, [root at localhost tmp]# ls keyring-XphDRC gconfd-racket mapping-racket ssh-qONcvE2869 gconfd-root orbit-racket xses-racket.bWVjc5 keyring-P5i6Xo orbit-root below is just some content from "xses-racket.bWVjc5" (nautilus:2955): Eel-WARNING **: Error starting command ''/tmp/keyring-XphDRC/socket'': Failed to execute child process "/tmp/keyring-XphDRC/socket" (Permission denied) I ran a soundcard test today, could that be it? This is all probably not related, but, I find it odd. What do you think? I googled for info on the filenames, but, found nothing. Cheers. Mark Sargent.
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Mark Sargent wrote:> This is all probably not related, but, I find it odd. What do you think? > I googled for info on the filenames, but, found nothing. Cheers. >Of course /tmp is a scratch pad. Here is what I would do 1) run rpm -Va | grep bin to see if any binaries have been changed 2) boot single user and wipe everything in /tmp 3) boot multi user and try various things, watching /tmp while you do so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine
Mark Sargent wrote:> Hi All, > > 2 days ago, I used skype on my laptop, which hadn't seen the net before > then. I successfully spoke with my mother, and had no problems. > Yesterday, I had what I believe was an unauthorized access to my laptop, > so, I changed all passwds on my smoothwall box, and also put the local > host onto a new subnet. Today, I experienced some weirdness with skype, > where, I could hear/be heard, but, the ring tone for calling/receivingdepending on what version of skype you are using - it might be worth while doing a 'downgrade', the latest greatest version of skype for linux does not work, they know it does not, and they dont care. I've been using 0.8.something for a long time now, it works, i hear voice. and dont intend to upgrade. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq