Skype 4.3.0.37 stopped working after installation of Nvidia 340.32 drivers

Question

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and tried skype, it worked.

Now I decided to install the video driver from NVIDIA website, install went successful but now Skype is not starting anymore, no error, nothing.

Any help to diagnose this problem, please?

Thank you.

Problem fixed, typed 'skype' in terminal and the result was: 'skype: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64' then found the solution searching google for this error. — Tusticles, Sep 03 '14 at 07:12

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '14 at 14:46

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I think this wrapper script is one way to make it work:

Create the folder bin in your home directory, if it's not there already, and put a file named skype there with this contents:

#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 $LD_PRELOAD"
exec /usr/bin/skype "$@"

Make the file executable with:

chmod +x ~/bin/skype

If you needed to create the ~/bin folder, you need to log out and log in again for this to make a difference.

This should work however you choose to start skype.

answered Sep 05 '14 at 14:46

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

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Another option is to add alias skype='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 skype' line to .bashrc file. – Akavall Nov 20 '15 at 17:04
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@Akavall: Right, but then it won't work if you start skype in the graphical environment, e.g. by clicking an icon. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 20 '15 at 19:04
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to give control back to the shell, add an ampersand: exec /usr/bin/skype "$@" & – Milimetric Feb 07 '17 at 11:59
@Milimetric: Right, that's useful if you start the program from the terminal. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Feb 07 '17 at 13:03

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '15 at 01:57

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Instead of messing with all that, create a file called local.conf in the subdirectory /etc/ld.so.conf.d

In /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf, add the following line:

/usr/lib32

Now sudo ldconfig

In Later versions of Ubuntu the /etc/ld.so.conf.d file contains /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf. If this didn't work, ensure that line is added.

answered May 01 '15 at 01:57

travisneids

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Appending /usr/lib32 to the file /etc/ld.so.conf worked perfectly. – Datoraki Jun 06 '15 at 12:33

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

Skype relies on 32 bit libGL.so.1.On a 32-bit OS it will work without any problems.This problem is seen for those who uses the 64-bit Operating System.As I said before, skype relies on 32-bit libGL.so.1.But it first finds the 64 bit libGL.so.1 file and tries to use it for the rendering, which results in the above error : wrong ELF class. What to do is listed in this link.

Open the file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/skype.conf as listed below.

sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/skype.conf

Then append the line /usr/lib32( Or your path, if yours is a different one).

After running sudo ldconfig it should work without a problem. Check the link which I listed before for more information.

It is important to add only the path to the directory, and not to the file. On ubuntu 15.04 created /etc/ld.so.conf.d/skype.conf (you have cd into /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ because /etc/ld.so.conf.d is a text file) and added this line: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/ — Niel de Wet, Apr 20 '16 at 08:07

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 15 '16 at 11:46

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This solution worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

edited Sep 15 '16 at 11:46

David Foerster

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answered Sep 15 '16 at 11:15

Med Rhamnia

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score -2 · Answer 5 · answered May 23 '16 at 13:37

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This solution worked for me on Debian 8

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

answered May 23 '16 at 13:37

Sileria

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Ubuntu's Mesa installation uses different paths. – David Foerster Sep 15 '16 at 11:45

Skype 4.3.0.37 stopped working after installation of Nvidia 340.32 drivers

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