Skype wont launch - fresh install

I just downloaded Skype to my G5 10.3.6
I opened the dmg and then dragged the icon into my applications folder, as instructed.
Now, the green icon appears there in the applications,
however, when I click it, Skype won't launch.
Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

You guys think it has to do with the fact that I can't find a mic and so I used an old headset as a makeshift microphone, and it sensed what I did? I figured it would work.. they work the same way basically..


thanks in advance for any suggestions

OK, thanks a lot for your reply.
It's running the verify permissions now. When thats done, I will repair disk permissions.
Correct me if I'm wrong but by then I will be done with it most likely.
Appreciate the advice and any more is greatly appreciated.

When it finished running the verify disk permissions,
it's showing me a few sets where the permissions differ from what they should be.
None of whats mentioned relates to Skype.
Should I continue with the repair disk permissions anyway?

Most of what its saying is just relating to printer utility frameworks.. nothing extremely important imho.

The computer is pretty vanilla and I'm sure I cant be the only one with this issue with Skype.

What's the next level of troubleshooting this great community could tip me off with?

tq very much

Mornin Barbara

ok..
Permissions repair complete.

Yes, thats the version of Skype I have.
It's 7,085,552 bytes.
I will re-download and see if that helps. Good idea.. tho extremely unlikely.. still a chance. So I will try that now.
Everything else works on the computer. Or at least I think.. but no signs of anything unusual. What other info about the system would help diagnose this?

When I click the Skype icon in the applications folder, the dock at the bottom of the screen twitches for a second, it tries to make room for the new icon, what happens is two icons towards the right of the bar seperate from each other as if the new icon is about to appear between them, they get a few pixels apart, then they just stick back together the way they were.

As for putting all local and system files to the bin, that sounds good. However, I'm not so sure how to do that.
Would you be so kind as to give some more info.. baby steps me into it?

About to download the fresh dmg now and see how that goes.. but wait - looks like they updated the dmg today to 1.0.0.24

thanks for the assistance, lets see what happens

grr same thing
carry on

Well.. couple of things.
Now that I repaired the permissions as suggested, Chess will not launch. Chess was one of the items whose permissions were reparied. It's telling me that it cannot launch because it is damaged or incomplete. No big deal, not that much of a chess user, but a woe nevertheless. (anyone know how to fix it?)
I did everything you suggested (except for the maint. script, which is about to be fired up) and it still won't work.
Once I did all that, tried to launch Skype, instead of the dock attempting to make room for the icon, the icon flashed there for a split second, then disappeared. So still no go. But it got me a split second further into having it fire up. (lol?) However, if we try to launch it again, its acting like it did before. The icon flashing in the dock happened once, and cannot be recreated. What it is doing now, is attempting to make room for it as before.. and then it dies peacefully.

When doing your suggestions, I deleted the caches as suggested, maybe I should have just deleted the contents of the folder as opposed to the folder itself, as now I just ran the disk permission utility again and all the recreated folders have incorrect permissions. So, I just fixed them.

I'll now try your maintenance script suggestion and see what happens.

As for the toppings on the vanilla,
I have VNCViewer, Opera, Cyberduck FTP, Mozilla, and that's pretty much it ATM. The VNC app would be the most exotic.. but, well.. I'm inclined to think that bundle isnt conflicting. I may be wrong.. but.. what do you think?

Any other suggestions while I run this maintenance script?

I will report back.
10x for the help, Barb.

Ahh sorry wasnt too clear.
"I did everything you suggested (except for the maint. script, which is about to be fired up) and it still won't work."

Tried that too, same thing, same symptoms..

We finished the sudo periodic daily weekly monthly..
still no go

Thanks for the instructions.

Did all that,
it was journaled, .. completed and everything was ok.

No good came out of it, Skype still just hints at launching but wont fire up.

And, still no Chess.. same error. (no big deal..I can live without it.. but sucks that this broke too.. still, we can focus on Skype for now)

stop the press

I'm just doing a fresh install of the os

will erase everything and start fresh and see w(tf) happens

will let you know how it goes

wish me luck

woOT

the fdisk fixed the problem (whatever glitch it was)
Skype works now.
Now on to install my other apps...

thanks for the help