I seem to be having a very similar problem to Angel Guzman Maeso (shakaran). I also ran "valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes skype" at the command line, and saw similar errors, ending in a segmentation fault.
The surprising thing is that Skype seemed to run fine under Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, but now that I upgraded to 13.10 Saucy Salamander I get the segmentation fault. I'm using a Lenovo S10-3 "ideapad" netbook with a 32-bit CPU. I suppose I'll try downloading the 4.2.0.11-1 version from http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/ . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical Partner Developers, which is subscribed to skype in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039408 Title: Skype does not launch segmentation fault (core dump) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/1039408/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

