Ubuntu – skypeforlinux white screen on 14.04

14.04skype

Yesterday my skypeforlinux program started showing only a white screen after login. I see the chat window for a fraction of a second and then it goes white. The top menus still show (and appear functional, I can press 'quit') but no dialogs, chats, etc appear.

I have tried restarting and tried clearing the config/skypeforlinux directory. No change. I don't have sudo access to the machine so can't reinstall the software.

If I start Skype via the command line then I get the following messages just as the white screen appears:

ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM mic_call
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM call
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM mic_call
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM call
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM mic_call
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM call
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  42 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  10
  Current serial number in output stream:  10

Any ideas what's happening here? It was working fine until yesterday.

Best Answer

@dermaze's solution worked for me too but version 8.10.0.4 is not available any more and the URL is now broken. I was able to download the Debian package with a previous version of Skype at this URL.

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