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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I'm using Skype 4.3 for Linux. Whenever I log into skype with one valid specific account credentials the Skype window disappears after I log-in. To verify the issue, I logged in with different valid account crdentials then it worked fine. I think that indicates skype has no issue. So for identfying the reason I went to terminal and run the following coomands :

skype --secondary

The result after running this command is "Skype log-in window appears. After putting log-in details the contact list appears for the moment and everything vanishes. But at a terminal I'm getting following output: Aborted (core dumped)"

Again I tried with following command :

echo "<yourskypeusername>" "<yourskypepassword>" | skype --pipelogin

The result after running this command is "Skype log-in window appears. After putting log-in details the contact list appears for the moment and everything vanishes. But at a terminal I'm getting following output: Aborted (core dumped)"

In other words both the commands gave me same result. But if I log-in to Skype with the same credentials on Windows(Windows 7 and Skype 4.3 for Windows) machine it works fine on it. Now someone please help me in correcting the issue? Thanks in advance.

PHPLover
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Apparently this is common. It has to do with previous chat history. Try this:

$ sqlite3 ~/.Skype/[YOURUSER}/main.db
sqlite> DELETE FROM Messages WHERE type=68;
sqlite> .quit

This will delete all old file transfer history, but messages should still remain.

Edit If you don't have sqlite3 installed, install it:

sudo apt-get install sqlite3
ElefantPhace
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