Remember now that earlier installed and uninstalled two tetex packages -- one sfs and then one pet. Went to Wine & Miktex when neither tetex worked. Can live without Skype but not without Miktex right now so will try to find culprit after current tex job finished.

Thanks for help.

RCRSN51 wrote: It would be helpful to other users if you could identify the offending package. I installed the skype static sfs version mentioned above and the Wine and Firefox 5.01 available from the Get Pup links on the 5.28 desktop. Nothing out of the ordinary - except I did install one windows p...

Thanks, Bigpup. Tried reinstalllig Skype but Skype still behaves the same.

Tried logging in from command line. Skype still crashes. Got following error message:

socket(): Address family not supported by protocol

No such problems earlier.

Dave

I just installed the instant update 001 for Puppy 5.28. It fixed my CUPS "500 Internal Server Error" problem but skpye_static-2.2.0.35 now crashes and the Skype window disappears after 5 seconds. It is impossible to log in.