Skype license agreement on every boot

[fightling]

Same issue on my computer. I first removed the shared.xml and .lck. The license agreement appeared once more and never again. But then skype tells me the password is wrong at every start.

I renamed the whole .Skype folder to deactivate it. This fixed the problem by causing Skype to create a new one but it also cleared the chat logs

So I looked further into the .Skype folder where I found a config.xml file within my user folder (.Skype/<username>) and a config.lck. I replaced these with the newly created copies and re-renamed the original folder to reactivate it.

And it works.

So I think it's the same problem with the .Skype/<username>/.config.* files like with the .Skype/shared.* files and you may just remove these files and restart Skype to recreate them. But I didn't do it that way. But because config.xml had size 0 a backup shouldn't be necessary

Hope this helps.

[birdsarah]

Same problem for me - needing to accept user agreement and settings lost.

Slight difference, in my .Skype folder, my shared.xml was listed as taking up 41P (on doing ls -hal) which is obviously insane as my hard drive is only 80M.

Deleting the shared.lck and shared.xml made the user agreement go away but still had the problem of settings being lost.

For that I removed the username/config.xml & config.lck (which were showing at 0 size) and then all was happy again.

I'm on 12.04 and have been using Skype on Ubuntu for ages, this just started happening this week.

Thanks for all your help.

[Virus666]

Take a look in your ~/.Skype directory for a file called shared.xml. If this is a 0 byte file remove it and try opening skype and accepting the agreement for hopefully the last time, now you should see shared.xml with content.

That worked. Thanks a lot...

[SillySod]

I had a similar problem with Skype giving me the licence agreement every time I started it, and also forgetting some of my settings (such as deciding to allow chat and calls from anybody!!).

This happened after I followed a solution to another problem, which was that the whole of Skype crashed every time I tried to attach a file to a chat message. The solution I'd found was to start Skype as root user, which I did using "sudo Skype" from a terminal. It solved my file attaching problem but started these other problems.

What it looks like had happened was that the shared.xml and config.xml files referred to above had changed to root permissions, so I had to chown these back to my own user to get back to how things were, and it's now working again as previously.