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Solution: skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Jesse — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:55:43 +0000

I recently hit a problem with skype on linux. When running skype from the GUI, nothing happened, I tried running skype from the command line and got :

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

apparently due to the fact it was unable to find libasound.so.2 which is provided by the alsa-libs.i386 package. This was further verified by running:

ldd /usr/bin/skype

for those of you unfamilar with ldd, it lists all the pacakge dependencies and whether or not it can find each file, if you have this problem and run this command, you will likely find that for libasound.so.2 you get => not found.

I then ran yum install alsa-lib.i386 but found it was already installed. This quickly led to the solution :: Uninstall alsa then reinstall.. which did indeed fix the problem.

to do this:
yum remove alsa-lib.i386 (this will also uninstall skype)
yum install alsa-lib.i386 (this reinstalls alsa)

then browse to http://www.skype.com/download and download the new rpm.

Let me know if this fixes your problem.

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Unified Messaging for Digital Phone Sytems

Jesse — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:50:07 +0000

We recently had a need for a unified messaging solution for someone with a digital phone system. For those unfamiliar with Unified Messaging, voicemails left are recorded as .wav files and delivered to the recipient as emails. This way all communications are unified in outlook; A one stop shop for all communications. This is a great solution for things like a sales line as it means that incoming sales voicemails can be emailed to the entire sales group instead of just being left for one user.

In order to solve this problem we employed a company called Aptela, located in Herndon VA. We used the company’s services to setup a call tree. We then had it ring the sales phone number, and if no one answered, the Aptela service would take a message and email it. This solved the problem and allowed us to merge some very nice VoIP/Unified messaging features with pre-existing digital phone equipment. It provides a great middle step for companies who are switching to a VoIP solution or want some VoIP features such as Unified Messaging for their existing Digital Phone equipment.

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Review: VMWare 2.0

Jesse — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:14:44 +0000

Recently VMWare set version 2.0 as the current latest release of their vmware server product. Unfortunately, after trying the product for a while, it is safe to say I am back to version 1.7. Why? The product is still plagued by a number of bugs including datastores that disappear and a confusing and difficult to use interface.

On the plus side, it does allow the use of vmware workstation images. It is also a web interface instead of the old application interface. However, until the datastore issue (if you add a non-standard datastore, and later reboot, your datastore magically vanishes and must be re-added) is fixed and they make significant changes to the user interface, it looks like VMWare Server 1.7 is here to stay for a while.

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Launch of the BHCBLog

Jesse — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:08:16 +0000

The purpose of this site is to document interesting IT and technology challenges I come across on a day-to-day basis. They may include how-to’s such as upgrade steps when migrating from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 or how to install Microsoft RMS. If you are interested in finding out more about me you can do so here.

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