CentOS - Jan 2013 - skype not starting anymore, prelink issue?

Hello there!


I was running skype 4.1.0.20 on my 64-bit laptop for weeks (installed
in /opt, from an official skype binary archive, plus few 32-bit stuff
to get it working), when suddenly it stopped working, no way to start
it:

 $ skype
 Fatal: QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QPaintDevice
 Aborted

A quick search on the Internet brought some possible solution,
basically configuring prelink to skip skype binary, uninstall skype,
reinstall it. I was doubtful about uninstall/reinstall step since I
didn't install it using a RPM but from a binary archive. Anyway I did
it, restarted even the computer. No way to start skype.

For now I'm stuck w/ an former staticQT 4.0.0.8 version of skype, which
has no support for MSN accounts. Please note that I'm not using
skype+msn because I want, but because I need to (@work).

Did anybody ever solve this issue or has a clue about how to do it?


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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On Wednesday 30 January 2013, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> I was running skype 4.1.0.20 on my 64-bit laptop for weeks (installed
> in /opt, from an official skype binary archive, plus few 32-bit stuff
> to get it working), when suddenly it stopped working, no way to start
> it:
How did you get Skype 4.1 to work on CentOS 6 x64_64?

Yves

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