Wow, ok -- I thought I was crazy for about 40 minutes this morning as I tried launching Skype on 4 of my computers (2 Windows 7 machines, 1 Ubuntu machine, and 1 MacBook Pro). It crashed within seconds on each and every one.<p>It's good to know it wasn't just me.<p>BTW, thanks to those of you who posted potential fixes.
My Linux Skype client (ver 2.2) kept crashing on me since 3 hours ago, as in when I'm starting the client it stays open for about 3-4 seconds, then quits with message "Aborted".<p>To fix it, I first deleted ~/.Skype, then I disabled by Internet connection, then reopened Skype, then tried to login (of course it doesn't work, my net is down, but it's going in a loop mode continuously trying to connect), then re-enable my Internet connection.<p>Well, either that or just dumb luck, but I'm not touching it to see if the method is repeatable.
"Some of you may have problems signing in to Skype and making calls. We’re investigating and hope to have more details to share soon."<p><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/73718207676022784" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/73718207676022784</a>
Downgrading to Skype 4.2 seems to solve it. <a href="http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/mysterious-skype-crash-downgrade-to.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/mysterious-skype-crash-down...</a>
Even <a href="http://heartbeat.skype.com/" rel="nofollow">http://heartbeat.skype.com/</a> seems to be suffering, and when it loads it claims that everything is "working normally".<p>Sigh.