Hi -
My skype for linux was working fine, 0.90.48(suse9.1, ).
yesterday I tried to login , but was told that 'login failed' -- thought I had forgotten password. -
- retreived new password from skype - tried logging in with same result after restarting skype .
- tried signing up for new account - won't let me create one - and I get the 'login failed' message ??

updated to 0.90.6 (suse9.1, ).- still have the same problem

-- anyone encountered anything similar?

I have the same problem, with my usual LInux account, but when I log as root it works quite fine... The same "logging in failed" problem when I try to register new, or use my existed account whit my user account in KDE. Anyone can help?

I have Mandrake 10, i have Opera with well set proxies, i have defined http_proxy and https_proxy variables, and it still doesn't work.


I know this is not a place, but I also have dcgui-qt problem "operation now in progres" when I try to log to our local hub.

Any ideas at all?

TNX everyone!

I was logged in as a user -- will try root
//edit-- works fine as root !? any ideas?
It doesnt't even seem to try to authenticate when logged in as user - tried packet capture and nothing showed up !? edit//

I had this same problem and I did little investigation (thank god Linux has nice utils for this):

It seems that Skype will fail to log in if ~/.Skype/<username> directory and its files are not writeable by the current user. If you have an NTFS (read: Win XP) drive mounted and only readable by root, and you copy your profile data over to Linux, the file permissions will be wrong. I thought I changed the permissions and ownerships right, but I first missed config.lck file (Why? No idea).

After fixing the permissions Skype works just fine and is able to log in. Have fun skyping.

I wish the error message would be bit more detailed.
The same problem can be achieved in Windows too btw, just set the Documents and Settings/Application Data/Skype directory to read-only and Skype will crash with a weird error. At least the Linux version doesn't crash. :)


ps. chmod -R u+rw ~/.Skype/ && chown -R <username>.<group> ~/.Skype will fix it.