It turned out to be an apparmor profile that restricted reading /dev.
Skype needs to be able to enumerate /dev to find a webcam.
Even though Skype is linked with gstreamer, it doesn't require
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good for accessing the webcam.
Sorry for the buzz. Hope this might help someone else.
** Changed in: skype (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Tags added: amd64
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