The crash is caused by the GTK theme, and missing GConf, a workaround is to use a different theme as mentioned in the previous post or to export GTK2_RC_FILES .... as described in the arch linux wiki document on skype https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Skype section:--- Skype doesn't use my GTK theme, even though other QT apps do
jon On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 10:59 +0100, jonathan wrote: > Hi > > I am running skype on 64 SL6. I installed the fedora rpm from the skype > website. then i installed the missing 32bit libraries. when start skype > get the following error, and fails to display the license agreement. > ------- > (process:14299): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization > assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function > > (process:14299): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion > `initialization_value != 0' failed > > (process:14299): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization > assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function > > (process:14299): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization > assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function > > (process:14299): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization > assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function > > (process:14299): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: > assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed > > (process:14299): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization > assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function > > (process:14299): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: > assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed > > (process:14299): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_style_get: assertion > `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed > > -------- > This is fixed by changing the style. > execute skype with the command > skype -style Plastique
