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After my computer crashed, my Skype doesn't stay on any more. I start it, the window opens up, but after 5 seconds Skype exits again by itself. I already reinstalled it four times.

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  • Same thing here
    – Marco Ceppi
    May 26, 2011 at 12:14

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It crashed for everyone. Apparently on Linux you keep getting Aborted on the console upon logging in. What fixes the problem is removing shared.xml from settings directory. Thus on Ubuntu it's: 

rm ~/.Skype/shared.xml

BTW. bit off topic here, but just for the sake of it

On Windows remove:

c:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data\Skype\shared.xml

On OSX:

rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Skype/shared.xml

Update: There is official acknowledgment of the issue from Skype.

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  • looks like it works, I'v also removed and reinstalled Skype.
    – digitaljail
    May 26, 2011 at 12:53
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    re-install wasn't necessary for me
    – vartec
    May 26, 2011 at 12:54
  • yes, not necessary! I did the same on another machine, works without re-install.
    – digitaljail
    May 26, 2011 at 14:15
  • might help for some, but did not help me, using 12.0.4.
    – tony gil
    Jan 29, 2013 at 14:04
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Try deleting shared.xml file in your home directory ~/.Skype/shared.xml

This command in the terminal will remove it rm ~/.Skype/shared.xml

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I had the same Problem after the recent unity-update. Removing $HOME/.Skype/shared.xml helps it.

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